Michal Schmidt wrote:
> On 05/14/2012 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure that naming conflicts in /usr/bin have happened before
>>> in Fedora, I'm not sure how they were resolved.
>>
>> Even in a relatively minimal system, I see many programs installed
>> in
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> Put it this way: in the package review process,
> *must* the name conflict be cause for rejection?
>
A direct file conflict would definitely be a blocker (
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts )
The case where one comm
2012-05-11 12:07 keltezéssel, Jim Meyering írta:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
id-utils (1996) seems to predate libuser (2001), so it's
unfortunate that libuser picked the clashing name.
It goes back pretty far. From idutils.texi's history node:
First posted to comp.sources.unix in September 198
On 05/14/2012 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Miloslav Trmač wrote:
I'm pretty sure that naming conflicts in /usr/bin have happened before
in Fedora, I'm not sure how they were resolved.
Even in a relatively minimal system, I see many programs installed
in both /sbin and /bin, though none seem t
Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary wrote:
Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands "lid" is also the
same as an existing command, though installed in a d
Greg McGary wrote:
It would be great if GNU id-utils could be included in future Fedora releases.
please, add it to *Package maintainers wishlist* :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist
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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary wrote:
>>> Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands "lid" is also the
>>> same as an existing command, though installed in a different place.
>>> id-uti
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 05/11/2012 09:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary wrote:
Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands "lid" is also the
same as an existing command, though installed in a different pla
On 05/11/2012 09:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary wrote:
>>> Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands "lid" is also the
>>> same as an existing command, though installed in a different place.
>>> id-utils
>>> has
On 05/11/2012 10:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Technically there is no need to change a name.
In Debian, one can have two lid programs installed, one in /usr/bin
and the other in /usr/sbin[*], so why not in Fedora?
"Technically" there is no problem (at least until we decide remove the
distinction
Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary wrote:
>> Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands "lid" is also the
>> same as an existing command, though installed in a different place. id-utils
>> has /usr/bin/lid, while libuser has /usr/sbin/lid.
>
> Yeah
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary wrote:
> Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands "lid" is also the
> same as an existing command, though installed in a different place. id-utils
> has /usr/bin/lid, while libuser has /usr/sbin/lid.
Yeah, that's come up before. Ther
It would be great if GNU id-utils could be included in future Fedora releases.
id-utils is a long-standing GNU package that creates a database of program
identifiers, then allows queries from the command line or from an editor.
Its primary virtue is speed. Think of it as an optimized "grep" which
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