naming of xf86-{video,input}-foo

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:54:19PM +0100, Hanno B??ck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just had a discussion with a user who commented on xf86-input-evdev that he 
> doesn't like to install something with xf86 in the name, as this sounds like 
> it belongs to xfree86.
> 
> I thought a while about it. I couldn't find a good reason why all x-drivers 
> are named that way. Maybe someone else can tell me?
> 
> Maybe it'd be a good idea to change that? xorg-video-foo, xorg-input-bar?

Well,

If it wasn't for my whining, it would've been called it xaa-foo. With 
kdriver based drivers being called kaa-foo. This was before EXA, when 
everybody was still trying hard to kill off the old xf86 style drivers.

The choice isn't that bad, if you can look beyond politics and the 
xfree86 versus xorg flamewar. Most of the DDX symbols are prepended by 
xf86, this is just a continuation of that.

Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer.