Re: more overly-generic package names from gnustep
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:14:38AM -0800, Number Six wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:01:05PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:46:33AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > > Naming GNUstep applications the generic way they are currently named
> > > strikes me as very elegant and aesthetically pleasing. This definitely
> > Does that mean that only one project is allowed to be elegant and
> > aesthetically pleasing? This seems unfortunate.
>
> I have some recent experience with this: I made my little package called
> "pim." Too generic. The solution was to name the package "tupim", the
> and install /usr/bin/tupim, /usr/share/man/man1/tupim.1, and symlink
> pim -> tupim, pim.1 -> tupim.1, unless there is already a file by that
> name present.
Ew! What happens when a package called 'pim' is installed after yours,
rather than before?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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