Adam Borowski wrote on 14/09/2018: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:28:36PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> For example, in the Rust team, we have been discussing about packaging >>> fd (a find alternative developed using rust [1]). We are planning to >>> install it in /usr/bin/fd .. but this conflicts with something >>> completely different, fdclone a clone of fd, a MS-DOS file browser... >> >> fdclone isn't a shell utility, you just start it once, then you use its >> ncurse-like interface. Renaming it /usr/bin/fdclone wouldn't be a >> problem at all > > It _already_ is a symlink pair between "fd" and "fdsh". For the executable, > "fd" is the master, "fdsh" the slave, the man page prefers "fdsh".
I am the prospect maintainer of fd-find; thanks for spotting this. I will ask the current maintainer of fdclone if he's willing to drop the 'fd' binary, keeping only 'fdsh' (upstream installs both as hard links). Shouldn't this be possible, I'll install the fd-find binary and man as: /usr/share/fd-find/bin/fd /usr/share/fd-find/man/man1/fd.1.gz and provide the convenience symlinks: /usr/bin/fdfind -> /usr/share/fd-find/bin/fd /usr/share/man/man1/fdfind.1.gz -> /usr/share/fd-find/man/man1/fd.1.gz Does this sound reasonable? Paride
