Bug#959826: ITP: topcom -- Triangulations Of Point Configurations and Oriented Matroids
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:22 AM David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> Doug Torrance <dtorrance@piedmont.edu> writes:
> > I'm curious if you have any thoughts on one decision I've made. I've
> > prefixed all of the binaries with "topcom-". There are a few of them
> > with very generic names (e.g., "cube"). The Gentoo and Fedora
> > maintainers chose to do use a prefix with just some of the binaries,
> > but I figured I'd go all the way. Looking ahead to the Macaulay2
> > interface, I don't want to have to worry about which binaries have the
> > prefix and which don't.
>
> Avoiding very generic names in /usr/bin is a good idea. Renaming is
> fine. If you think that few end-users will invoke the binaries, another
> option is to put them in a private directory (maybe
> /usr/lib/topcom/bin). That option seems less popular in Debian, and only
> used when there are really a lot of binaries involved.
Great, thanks for the input!
Doug
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