Re: Bug#801837: ITP: yank -- interactively select and yank terminal output to stdout or xsel
> Well, that `emboss` tool clearly appears to be lame in its approach:
> it should provide a single CLI tool called `emboss` which would have
> those "yank" et al as its subcommands so that anyone could do something
> like `emboss yank ...` etc.
>
> I'd say this should be reported as a bug upstream.
>
> The original names could be provided as a compat package shipping a
> bunch of shell one-liner scripts.
...or rather symlinks, and/or place them in its own directory,
like other tools with many subcommands (openssl, busybox) do.
I think this is common enough to warrant codification by policy.
Olaf
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