Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?
Quoting Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>:
> Conflicting is Not An Option. So policy says, for good reasons.
OK, bad idea.
> There is precedence to consider. Sarge already contains a git package
> that provides /usr/bin/git. Users who update from sarge to etch would
> not be served well if the software they are used to suddenly changes
> name just to accommodate a newcomer.
>
> OTOH, cogito is not in sarge; there are no prior user expectations
> about what its command name should be.
Well, there will be user expectations (e.g. if people use cogito-git
on other distributions as well), but I agree: We can live with that.
Cheers, WB
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