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Re: name clash: epiphany and epiphany-browser



On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:38:33AM +0200, Igor Stroh wrote:

> I'm just curious, there is epiphany (which main binary is
> /usr/games/epiphany) and epiphany-browser (which main binary is
> /usr/bin/epiphany). I know that /usr/bin is "more important" 'cos on
> most installations /usr/bin precedes /usr/games in $PATH, but I think
> it's still a bit unfair. Imagine you're an addicted epiphany player and
> you (or your system administrator) just apt-getted epiphany-browser.
> You're used to start the game just by typing `epiphany`. Now instead of
> your beloved game a www-browser is started. I think it's kind of
> confusing.

I agree that this is unfortunate, but the situation would need to be
resolved by the upstream authors of these packages.

-- 
 - mdz



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