[PlanetCCRMA] Naming conflict between planet ccrma and fedora extras

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 10:54 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 06:53 -0700, Anthony Green wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:46 +0200, Knut-Håvard Aksnes wrote:
> > > Two widely different packages both named muse exists in these two 
> > > repositories. The one in fedora extras is a publishing package for emacs 
> > > and xemacs.
> > 
> > FWIW, my suggestion is to rename the musical muse package to
> > "muse-sequencer", which matches the project's web site
> > (www.muse-sequencer.org).
> 
> Could be, but muse is not only a sequencer. 
> 
> Perhaps use the capitalization of the project name instead:
>   MusE
> 
> Or looking at the page of the conflicting package:
>   http://www.mwolson.org/projects/MuseMode.html
> shoud be emacs-muse or muse-mode, right? :-)
> 
> Any alternative is bad, there's no upgrade path without manual
> intervention on the part of the user. I can't use the "obsoletes /
> provides" trick for changing package names as the old name is a valid
> package and its current version is older that Planet CCRMA's muse
> package. Any ideas?

And, of course, don't forget:
  http://muse.dyne.org/
Which is spelled "MuSE"
:-)
I'm not kidding... Regretfully there's no globally unique namespace for
projects (other than sourceforge). 

-- Fernando