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Re: CD-HIT binaries (Was: [GSoC] Help needed for verifying cd-hit test)



Hi Sascha,

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:27:44AM +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> > Is there anybody who would
> > expect to find a /usr/bin/cdhit executable in any scripts or should we
> > rather rename to cd-hit to fit the upstream binary.
> 
> I remember that I had to patch upstream code a couple of times to change
> the name of the CD-HIT/CD-HIT-EST binaries to match the Debian names
> instead of upstream's ones.

Ahhh.  May be some bug report / discussion here would have enabled a
more straightforward solution.

> I'd need to update these then... it might
> also help to keep both variants in, for instance the other one as a symlink?

I admit I've considered to keep the old names for compatibility but at
the same time I would like to stop this at a certain point in time since 
I see no point in bloating /usr/bin.

Thanks for the helpful comment

      Andreas.

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