Le Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:40:08 +0100, "Enno Boland (Gottox)" <got...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> - surf.sourceforge.net Surf is indeed the standard name for functions that plot shaded surfaces in visualisation software (think Matlab). > In my opinion the name "surf" is just made for a project like this. > And I want to stick with it. > > What do you think? There is almost no way to avoid name conflicts in OSS projects, I think it's the job of the packagers to take care of that in each distribution. If they want to rename the binary to surf-browser or suckless-surf, they can do it easily. That being said, I guess suckless surf is more popular than the other project, so it's that one that will be renamed in most cases. If you want a "real world" example, I maintain the surf package in the Arch Linux User Repository. The other project is packaged under the name surf-ag. The two packages should conflict because they both provide /usr/bin/surf but nobody ever complained about that, probably because nobody ever tried to install both... -- catwell
