Re: Bug#111309: ITP: xtail -- like "tail -f", but works on truncated files, directories, more

[Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:56:37AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:21:04PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:09:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:08:21 +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut
> > > <eric@andago.com> wrote:
> > > >Do you want to go for another name then ? I find it quite confusing. mtail or
> > > >multitail might be clearer.
> > > 
> > > Changing the upstream name for this sake is a bad idea. Hey, xinetd
> > > doesn't need X as well.
> > 
> > nor does xargs.

nor does xtell

> 
> OK, that makes 2 packages out of ...
> 
> [eric@curitiba:~]$ zgrep Package /var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.2.73_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages\
> |grep ' x' |wc -l
> 417
> [eric@curitiba:~]$
>     
> 
> 417 (!)

not all these packages are X-related.
I am sure one could find more programs beginning with x
and not having anything in common with X (e.g. xfs filesystem tools)
We also do not name curses packages with first letter c, daemons
with first letter d (but with the last one :-)) etc...

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