Re: node-like file conflicts

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: node-like file conflicts"):
> Le lundi 06 août 2012 à 15:37 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : 
> > 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):
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> There’s also epiphany (maybe your forgot /usr/games).

/usr/games is a swamp for another time I think.  I guess it contains
an awful lot of things with clashing names.

Nowadays those name clashes, and the expectation that people writing
games might not be so good about namespace questions as other software
(ha ha ha), might be part of the TBH rather flimsy justification for
/usr/games's existence.

Ian.