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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-05-25 17:00:01 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-05-25 17:00:01 +0200
commit25083588b9d07077f77a495381f545b6a0e5ca69 (patch)
tree933115f224a89240185f1573119f2f5d9ad0e279 /doc
parent884af1b4ecb0c6ede9fb431105c5c931d1bd1619 (diff)
doc: Augment "Package Naming".
* doc/guix.texi (Package Naming): Mention underscores, and give SDL_net as an example.
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@@ -2812,12 +2812,15 @@ the string in the @code{name} field of a package definition. This name
is used by package management commands such as
@command{guix package} and @command{guix build}.
-Both are usually the same and correspond to the lowercase conversion of the
-project name chosen upstream. For instance, the GNUnet project is packaged
-as @code{gnunet}. We do not add @code{lib} prefixes for library packages,
-unless these are already part of the official project name. But see
-@pxref{Python Modules} and @ref{Perl Modules} for special rules concerning
-modules for the Python and Perl languages.
+Both are usually the same and correspond to the lowercase conversion of
+the project name chosen upstream, with underscores replaced with
+hyphens. For instance, GNUnet is available as @code{gnunet}, and
+SDL_net as @code{sdl-net}.
+
+We do not add @code{lib} prefixes for library packages, unless these are
+already part of the official project name. But see @pxref{Python
+Modules} and @ref{Perl Modules} for special rules concerning modules for
+the Python and Perl languages.
@node Version Numbers