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Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?



"Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com> writes:
> Sound like a brilliant idea. I just don't have an idea how it would be
> implemented, except that there should be provision for names of real
> binaries, instead of names of debian binaries, e.g. one should be able
> to mention a love for top instead of being forced to choose procps,

You're definitely going to need some a "canonicalization list",
which maps various alternative names to some canonical name.

Probably needs a lot of hand-tweaking too... people use weird
abbreviations etc. (e.g., "oowriter", "OOo", "openoffice", "OOo-writer",
...).

-Miles
-- 
`The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'



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