Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes: > Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor.org> writes: > >> Adam Borowski wrote on 14/09/2018: >>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:28:36PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>>>> For example, in the Rust team, we have been discussing about packaging >>>>> fd (a find alternative developed using rust [1]). We are planning to >>>>> install it in /usr/bin/fd .. but this conflicts with something >>>>> completely different, fdclone a clone of fd, a MS-DOS file browser... >>>> >>>> fdclone isn't a shell utility, you just start it once, then you use its >>>> ncurse-like interface. Renaming it /usr/bin/fdclone wouldn't be a >>>> problem at all >>> >>> It _already_ is a symlink pair between "fd" and "fdsh". For the executable, >>> "fd" is the master, "fdsh" the slave, the man page prefers "fdsh". >> >> I am the prospect maintainer of fd-find; thanks for spotting this. I >> will ask the current maintainer of fdclone if he's willing to drop the >> 'fd' binary, keeping only 'fdsh' (upstream installs both as hard links). >> Shouldn't this be possible, I'll install the fd-find binary and man as: >> >> /usr/share/fd-find/bin/fd >> /usr/share/fd-find/man/man1/fd.1.gz >> >> and provide the convenience symlinks: >> >> /usr/bin/fdfind -> /usr/share/fd-find/bin/fd >> /usr/share/man/man1/fdfind.1.gz -> /usr/share/fd-find/man/man1/fd.1.gz >> >> Does this sound reasonable? > > It strikes me as rather presumptious to be trying to grab a new two > letter command at this point in the history of *nix (particularly when > it is already in use). > > Personally, I'll never willingly install a binary named that, because it > seems very likely to tickle my dyslexia. I'd expect it to make me very > grumpy if I ever have to maintain a script that includes references to > both df and fd nearby one another. Ignore the above -- I managed to misread what you asked as dropping 'fd' into /usr/bin, which is the oposite of what you were actually asking. Sorry if I introduced any aditional confusion. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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