Bug#959826: ITP: topcom -- Triangulations Of Point Configurations and Oriented Matroids

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

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.

d