Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Rename texlive to tex.

[Eric Bavier]

On 2016-05-24 11:16, Roel Janssen wrote:
> John Darrington writes:
>
> > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:59:14AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
> >
> >      John Darrington writes:
> >
> >      > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
> >      >      * gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Rename texlive.scm to 
> > tex.scm.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/texlive.scm: Rename file to tex.scm.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/tex.scm: Renamed from texlive.scm.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/algebra.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/docbook.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/engineering.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/gettext.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/gnome.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/lisp.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/maths.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/music.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/ocaml.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/plotutils.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/python.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >      * gnu/packages/scheme.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
> >      >
> >      > What is the purpose of doing that?  I thought that texlive was 
> > the chosen
> >      > name that the project had.
> >      >
> >      > I think there are a few other implementations of TeX in the 
> > wild (though
> >      > mostly unmaintained).  Furthermore, I think Knuth has a 
> > trademark on the word "tex".
> >      >
> >      > J'
> >
> >      See this thread:
> >        
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00702.html
> >
> >      I want to add Texmaker (an editor for TeX).  Putting it in 
> > texlive.scm
> >      wouldn't really fit because it's not part of Texlive.  So, the 
> > idea is
> >      to put everything TeX-related into one file (tex.scm).
> >
> > Oh I see.  I thought you were renaming the package itself, not the 
> > file in which
> > its definition resides (saying "Rename texlive.scm to tex.scm" would 
> > have
> > made this clearer).
>
> You're right, that would make it more clear.  I will change it in the
> new patch.

See the git log for examples of the commit message format for such 
cases.  Notably, you can list all affected files with a single "Adjust 
module import" message.  I believe ChangeLog convention also allows one 
to leave out the affected files and simply say something like "Adjust 
all affected modules".

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`~Eric