Hi! On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Luis de Bethencourt <l...@debethencourt.com>wrote:
> Hello everybody :) > > After 2 years of slow development snappy 0.3 is out, and it has picked up > the interest of the Fedora packagers. The problem is that the snappy > executable name conflicts with spice-gtk. > > In Fedora /usr/bin/snappy is owned by spice-gtk > in debian/gentoo /usr/bin/snappy is owned by snappy the video player. > > http://projects.gnome.org/snappy/ > > Having either renamed is equally inconvenient. > > So this decision is a matter of what is better for linux users. Having > /usr/bin/snappy be a spice-gtk snapshot tool or a video player? > > What do you guys think? > Although snappy in spice-gtk predates snappy player by about 6 months, I think the usefulness (and hype) of the second is obvious. spice-gtk snappy is mainly useful in scripts for testing, so users will need to adapt their script, or change they environment somehow (aliases or whats not). I don't this it's a major issue. But if somebody is concerned, raise your voice quickly. I suggest for upcoming release to rename snappy to something like snappy-spice (that would be easy enough to discover when completing for ex) regards
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