Re: executable name collision
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:14:39PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
> We are working on package of a data acquisition & control system (called
> "mx") which has an executable called "motor" which has a completely
> different function (it is a java editor). This executable conflicts with
> an executable of the same name in the package "motor" [0]. Since this
> executable is in use in a number of places, I really can't change its name
> in the Debian package. The only way I can see to handle this is to make
> our package (called mx1.2) conflict with the "motor" package or just
> ignore the entire thing and let the last package installed with a
> --force-overwrite win.
>
> Any other ideas?
Is motor generally useful, or is it just used as an internal component of
mx? (not a good name itself, BTW) If the latter, consider putting motor
into /usr/lib/mx.
- Matt
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