We can always locate them using dpkg if we are unsure of their names, so a prefix or other small adjustment should be fairly innocuous. -- Sent from my mobile device.
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: >On 03/22/2013 01:51 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> I'm not particularly happy with binaries with pretty generic names >> ("addbuiltin" is a good example of such) ending up in /usr/bin... >> But you can try to convince me otherwise. Or move them in some other >> directory. > >hm, i think the following new binaries should be unobjectionable in >/usr/bin : > >p7content >p7env >p7sign >p7verify >symkeyutil >ocspclnt >chktest >derdump >rsaperf >vfychain >vfyserv > > >These two TLS client utilities and two TLS server utilities have >somewhat generic names, but i think are useful enough to ship in >/usr/bin despite the genericness (they can be used along with >gnutls-cli >and gnutls-serv and "openssl s_client" and "openssl s_server" to do >interop testing for new TLS clients and servers, for example): > >strsclient >tstclnt >httpserv >selfserv > >The following three are the most dubious in terms of names: > >addbuiltin >pp >dbtest > >i'd be fine shipping the last category and optionally the client/server >utilities with an nss- prefix if you think that would be more >acceptable. I'd rather not move them entirely out of the $PATH if >possible. and i'd prefer to not rename existing tools that we have >already been shipping in libnss3-tools, of course. > >Would you like me to prepare an alternate patch that does that renaming >on one or both groups? > > --dkg