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Re: Why do people do this? [Was fishingboat in root]



* Jamie Heilman (jamie@audible.transient.net) [010831 10:34]:
> Jason Thomas wrote:
> 
> > maybe ask the maintainer of the package to change it to something
> > meaningful!
> 
> better yet, uninstall the package and boycott stupid behavior

That's not really better ... it's not like packages are in competition
with each other and this one will be run out of business by everyone not
using it.

A better solution would be to file a bug report. I don't think it's
explicitly mentioned in the policy manual, but it makes sense that
unless a binary is named fishingboat or in package fishingboat, it
shouldn't make a .fishingboat (except maybe under
~/.packagename/.fishingboat). I don't think that sounds too
unreasonable, and it looks like it should be a very easy patch.

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