On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 02:20:58PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > I fully agree to Santiago that no package should install a binary > called `i'. > > All file names with a single character and also most of the file names > with two characters are probably name space pollution. > > A few exceptions might be good, e.g., for utilities which always used a > single character. Probably `w' and `[' fall into this category. > > What do others think about this? If people agree, we should work out a > policy change. I agree, except for 'w', '[', and 'X', all of which have roots going way back, we should discourage, and possibly forbid, the use of single-letter binary names. -- G. Branden Robinson | I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Purdue University | for malicious intent is nothing more branden@purdue.edu | than sheer incompetence! http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- J. L. Rizzo II
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