* Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>, 2012-09-21, 17:42:
The following package pairs: 1) are co-installable,2) both ship binaries with the same name, but in different directories within $PATH (e.g. one in /usr/bin, another in /usr/sbin):There's a few more if you take alternatives into account: boom: alliance prboom lft: lft traceroute tf: tf tf5 vi: elvis-tiny vim (+ a bunch of other vi clones)(The format is: "<binary>: <package-with-real-file> <package-with-alternative>".)
In case someone wants to do more research about (mis)use of alternatives, here's a list of all alternatives created by Debian packages (in the same format at Contents-* files, which can be found on your favourite mirror and are used by apt-file):
http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/alternatives/Contents The file was generated by this script: http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/alternatives/generate-contents (with some manual additions for packages that weren't installable). -- Jakub Wilk