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Re: OT: namespace pollution & prefixes



Super, danke!
Ich werde mal nachfragen, wie so eine Umbenennung upstream ankommen würde.

--Nico

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Felix Salfelder
<salfelder@em.cs.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:41:33AM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>> I would recommend to be careful not to pollute the /usr/bin namespace.
>> If a package really has to install many commands to /usr/bin in bulk,
>> consider prefixing them with the name of the project, e.g. seacas-fastq.
>> Especially if there are generic names such as decomp, algebra, numbers
>> involved.
>
> good idea. thanks Tobias.
>
> Nico: i have added & pushed the suggested prefixes, i didn't check
> whether some of them call each other yet.
>
> cheers
> felix


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