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"Hey, what should I call a package that provides a binary 'foo'?"
> "Usually just 'foo'."
"Oh, of course.""Ok, what do I call a package that provides a library 'foo', or libraries for 'foo'?"
> "Usually 'libfoo'."
"Ah, ok, thanks.""Ok, what about a package that provides a graphical version of 'foo'?"
> "Uhh, we usually name it something like 'gfoo', or 'foo-gtk', 'foo-qt', or 'foo-tk', something like that."
"Ah, of course, of course, thanks.""Ok, so we've got a program called 'qalc', that has GUIs written for qt and gtk."
> "Okay."
"So, I'm going to call the packages 'qalc', 'qalc-gtk', and 'qalc-qt'."
> "No."
"What??"
> "It needs to be 'libqalculate', 'qalculate-gtk', and 'qalculate-qt'."
"WHY!? Why would the package that provides the command-line tool be a 'lib*' package?!?"
> "I said so."
"You know what? You're NUTS, man. I'm going back to Debian."https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=qalc
https://openports.pl/search?file=qalc&descr=&path=&pkgname=&category=&maintainer=
https://ports.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=qalc&stype=all&sektion=all
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=qalc