On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:22 AM David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> wrote: > 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.
Great, thanks for the input! Doug
