> Well, that `emboss` tool clearly appears to be lame in its approach: > it should provide a single CLI tool called `emboss` which would have > those "yank" et al as its subcommands so that anyone could do something > like `emboss yank ...` etc. > > I'd say this should be reported as a bug upstream. > > The original names could be provided as a compat package shipping a > bunch of shell one-liner scripts.
...or rather symlinks, and/or place them in its own directory, like other tools with many subcommands (openssl, busybox) do. I think this is common enough to warrant codification by policy. Olaf
