On 2015-07-05 13:16, Christian Seiler wrote:
A good example for this is the open(1) command: way back when Linux was still in its infancy, somebody decided it would be a good idea to have a command to run something on a different virtual text console, and they named it 'open'. This is the reason why you have 'xdg-open' for opening files according to their mime type (and that command is not that known, because of its name), because 'open' was already taken. For an operation such as starting something on a new virtual terminal, open is far too generic a name to have been a sensible choice even back then, but that ship has sailed.
By that logic 'xdg-open' would also have been barred to use the name 'open'.
So _please_, please choose a different name for the binary in Debian,[1] because accessing a cloud service (that might not be around in 10 years, see e.g. Google News as for how such things can disappear in a relatively short time) is something really, really specific and really shouldn't take up a generic name that will haunt us for years to come.
OT: You're not looking for News here, you're looking for Reader. (Except if you are in Spain.)
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