[elrepo-devel] Legacy ATI 9.3 series drivers

[Phil Perry]

On 21/12/10 16:10, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Phil Perry<phil at elrepo.org>  wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are now looking at releasing an ATI legacy driver based on their 9.3
>> series release (thanks again to Marco for contributing the packages).
>>
>> Any thoughts on the naming for this package? Our current (latest)
>> release is named kmod-fglrx and fglrx-x11-drv. Legacy nvidia drivers are
>> named kmod-nvidia-96xx and nvidia-x11-drv-96xx.
>>
>> So if we follow the style of naming we have used for the nvidia legacy
>> series, we would name these packages:
>>
>> kmod-fglrx-93
>> fglrx-x11-drv-93
>>
>> An alternative might be:
>> kmod-fglrx93
>> fglrx93-x11-drv
>>
>> Any thoughts/preferences?
>
> At first, I thought going for the nvidia style was good. However,
> without the appended 'xx', the number 93 alone might make it look as
> if it is part of the version/release number.  In that case, the second
> option may be better.
>
> Akemi

Yes, for example they would be:

kmod-fglrx-93-9.3-1.el5.elrepo
fglrx-x11-drv-93-9.3-1.el5.elrepo

which does indeed have the potential to cause confusion.

The alternative option being:

kmod-fglrx93-9.3-1.el5.elrepo
fglrx93-x11-drv-9.3-1.el5.elrepo

which presumably would be less confusing?