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Re: Intent to Rewrite: pwgen



On Thu, 31 May 2001, Martin Ellis wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> > And, I'm also working on some code that has, among other things, a
> > pwgen compatability mode.  I was thinking of releasing it with a pwgen
> > executable and having it conflict with pwgen, but now I think that may
> > not be such a good idea.
> 
> Can it Conflicts: pwgen and Provides: pwgen? (Does that make sense?)

Yes.

I suggest the following:
- call this new implementation differently; SINP? (SINP Is Not
Pwgen), pwgen2? any other name will do...
- I'll add in the package a shell script called pwgen that will emulate
the way the "old" pwgen worked by calling SINP/pwgen2.

Unless I overlooked something, it should solve at the same time the
backwark compatibility problem and Ted's desire to improve the command
line.

Cordialement,

--
Vincent RENARDIAS
Directeur Technique
E-FB2 / http://www.efb2.com



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