What to use in packaging

[Ben Armstrong]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:15 +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> Allthough most of our packages are independent of each other, there
> might be packages usefull to group.  e.g. if they have several level
> set's.  (There ist for example ppracer, the game and some leverls, and
> tuxracer-extras, which contains many extra levels).
> 
> So... uhm... should I add them as ppracer/{...} and
> tuxracer-extras/{...} or would ppracer/ppracer/{...} and
> ppracer/tuxracer-extras/{...} would make our job much more easier?

I'm not convinced this makes our job that much easier.  Are there lots
of these?  If it's just a matter of grouping a few related packages, and
those packages have separate sources and separate release cycles, I
doubt if downloading them all at once is something that would be done
very often.  So you'd be trading a nice, flat structure for a
hierarchical one to gain a small amount of convenience some of the time,
at the expense of hiding the actual package name one level deep in the
hierarchy, and therefore causing some inconvenience the rest of the
time.

Ben