On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:52:17 -0500 Kurt H Maier <karmaf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Dieter Plaetinck > <die...@plaetinck.be> wrote: > > If you can avoid conflicts, that's better than expecting packagers > > (of each distro) to fix it. > > I disagree. lsx-lrzsz is clearly less useful or important than > lsx-dmenu. Just because some idiot camped out on a three-letter > string doesn't mean his symlink is suddenly sacred and immutable. > It's the whole job of a distribution maintainer to decide which side > he's on. > > In short: screw 'em. > I was talking in general. The case where an "idiot" "stole" a 3-letter string is a very specific case where it can be justified to reuse the same name.
