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Re: more overly-generic package names from gnustep



Number Six dijo [Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:27:08AM -0800]:
> > > It is much more convenient for me to launch 'pim c' instead of 'tupim c'
> > > -- 2 fewer keystrokes.
> > 
> > There are a wide variety of ways for you to achieve the same result without
> > using the very generic name 'pim' for the name of the program.
> 
> Okay, I'm convinced -- I'll leave it out.  Are there "debian-standard" 
> ways to do this sort of thing?  All I can think of is provide a sample 
> shell script in examples and tell people to source it.  Come to think of 
> it, if that's good enough for Blackdown's Java to setup the CLASSPATH, 
> it's good enough for me.

We had a recent bug report regarding alternatives to telling people to
source a shell script - Take a look at #238592 if you are interested
in a little extra discussion.

Greetings,

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