On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:26:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Contrast that with the positive actitude of the NFS developers of CITI > > at UMichi when heimdal-dev and libgssapi-dev both contained > > /usr/lib/libgssapi.a [1]. They went to the trouble of renaming libgssapi > > to libgssglue. > > Indeed, and I'm very grateful for that. But realistically that was also a > lot easier than renaming Node.js's interpreter, and I think the CITI folks > did actually know that was coming. The conflict had already been pointed > out in the Kerberos community and had been discussed prior to it coming up > here. But more significantly that library was essentially used only by > NFS, so only a few clients had to change and the renaming was fairly > straightforward.
The Node.js developer KNEW there were other binaries named node, and just went on as if it did not matter. Check the development history/blog. > > Node.js is at this point another matter; it's the topic of books, > widespread use independent of the upstream developers, and lots of > articles and Internet documentation with a life of its own. A quick > Google search comes up with tons of indepedent sites telling people to run > programs with "node <script-name>". That makes renaming a much more > difficult prospect. And the ham radio binary is the subject of sections of how-to's and books on amateur radio. It also has "a life of it's own" in the ham radio community. If a binary's name is simply a matter of a popularity contest in Debian, at some point every name may be made to change. -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > Patrick Ouellette | It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. < > pat(at)flying-gecko.net | -- Francis of Assisi < > Amateur Radio: NE4PO | < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' -- 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/20120501211011.gj30...@flying-gecko.net
