On 2009/10/22 13:35, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote: > Decklin, what are your thoughts on this? Would it make sense to move the > Music Playing Daemon's mpd binary to /usr/sbin/, and the manpage to > section 8? I have the impression (perhaps wrongly) that mpd is mainly > start via an init script, so it wouldn't hurt too badly.
Yes, I know a whole lot of users who run MPD as a regular user. It is perfectly possible to run MPD on login in ~/.xsession, and there are good reasons for doing so. Besides that, your suggestion isn't a solution at all, because it does not address the real problem: that there are two binaries with the same name. It's just an attempt to hide the symptom (path name conflict). > The problem is that mpd is a key binary in the mpich2 package, > referenced all over the place, and it would really be confusing for > users to rename it to (say) mpich2-mpd. It would be confusing for users if /usr/bin/mpd doesn't start the Music Player Daemon anymore, after more than 6 years. Same thing. There are more problems to come: mpd.py references files named /etc/mpd.conf and ~/.mpd.conf. Music Player Daemon uses /etc/mpd.conf and ~/.mpdconf. Talk about confusion. Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
