I should focus on the positive ...

On Jan 9, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:

>
> The polluted name space (i.e. different distros have different
> package names for identical content) is very real however,
> and the only engineering solution that I can think of is
> mapping names from one space to another. The infrastructure
> to maintain the mapping transforms is non-trivial no matter what.
>

The version (name but don't be confused) space is nowhere near is  
polluted as the
package name name(sic) space.

Standardizing on E:V-R somehow is likely achievable imho.

73 de Jeff