Doug Torrance <dtorra...@piedmont.edu> writes: > I'm curious if you have any thoughts on one decision I've made. I've > prefixed all of the binaries with "topcom-". There are a few of them > with very generic names (e.g., "cube"). The Gentoo and Fedora > maintainers chose to do use a prefix with just some of the binaries, > but I figured I'd go all the way. Looking ahead to the Macaulay2 > interface, I don't want to have to worry about which binaries have the > prefix and which don't.
Avoiding very generic names in /usr/bin is a good idea. Renaming is fine. If you think that few end-users will invoke the binaries, another option is to put them in a private directory (maybe /usr/lib/topcom/bin). That option seems less popular in Debian, and only used when there are really a lot of binaries involved. d
