Em 01-01-2018 10:56, The Wanderer escreveu: > On 2018-01-01 at 05:48, Herbert Fortes wrote: > >> >>> Well said, I agree 100%. >>> >>> I consider both parties to be wrong here: >>> * Jonathan went very hasty on the NMU >>> * Herbert refuses a patch for a quite annoying thing, fixing which requires >>> no effort on his side (as the submitter did all the work), without >>> providing any rationale >>> >>> It's a clear bug to me: the package behaves in a different way based on >>> whether an unrelated doodad (some X stuff) is installed or not. That breaks >>> people's muscle memory, requiring user's effort for every single machine the >>> package is installed on -- or, on every invocation, thinking "is this shell >>> on a GUI machine?". And I for one ssh to my home desktop a lot. >>> >>> "because one does not want to press tab" is a ridiculous explanation. >>> >>> Thus, Herbert: could you please tell us if you have any reason to reject the >>> fix, other than being annoyed with a NMU done in a wrong way? >> >> It seems more ridiculous to me do not want to use an alias. > > Adding an alias locally only fixes the problem locally, for one machine, > or even one person on one machine. (And - as mentioned in the bug > comments - if you're trying to share the same bashrc across multiple > machines, some of which have only duc and some of which have duc-nox, a > simple alias definition will not suffice; you'd need to write > conditional logic to determine which alias to define.) > > Diverting the installed binary to a non-conflicting name and defining an > alternative locally would avoid the latter problem, but it seems > fragile, and again only fixes the problem for one machine. > > Defining an alternative in the package, or (less optimally) having both > packages provide the same binary name with appropriate Conflicts:, fixes > the problem for everyone who uses the package - with relatively minimal > effort, and as far as I can see, zero undesirable side effects. >
It is impossible that someone has both - duc and duc-nox - installed ?
