On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 02:36:45AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > Apparently, the way this is done in Debian [1] is that the program is > > installed as /usr/bin/prename and provided as an alternative to the > > util-linux version of /usr/bin/rename via the alternatives system. [...] > Nah, please don't do that. This rename and that rename have different > option syntax, so they are not interchangeable. We're better off just > having a different name.
Yeah. The Alternatives system should only be used in the very rare cases where two different programs provide the same functionality and drop-in equivalence to a reasonable level. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
