On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:14:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [nodejs's vs. hamradio's /usr/bin/node] > In an ideal world, *neither* application would be using "node", since it's > a very generic name
You could rename the binary in both packages and then ask the user via debconf and/or alternatives whether to set a symlink to "node" and if so, to which one (node-js or node-hamradio). Within Debian, nothing should reference /usr/bin/node, but node-js or node-hamradio. The symlink is then only required for 3rd party code. Granted, this can still break for those who have 3rd party hamradio scripts and 3rd party node-js stuff both referring to "node", but that's exactly the problem you have right now. Just my €0.02 -- mail: a...@thur.de http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120428092523.gl6...@ltw.loris.tv
