Re: multimedia/vlc{,2,21}

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 05:35:10PM +0100, Ian D. Leroux wrote:
> I'm mostly judging from the way firefox has been handled, but at least
> for user-facing applications (as opposed to libraries, programming
> language interpreters etc.), it makes sense to me that the versionless
> package name would correspond to what one would generally install by
> default (i.e. latest stable or supported version), and that package
> names with baked in versions should be of interest only to those who
> have a specific requirement for an unusual older version.

Exactly!

Maybe s/unusual older/specific/, the same applies to developement/beta
versions.

Martin