Source: emboss Version: 6.6.0+dfsg-18 Priority: wishlist I noticed the package Emboss currently ships with 261 binaries (full list at e.g. https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd64/emboss/filelist).
Of these, 24 have only 5 letters or less and generic names like "union" and "yank": acdc cai chaos chips cusp dan dreg drget emma freak godef iep msbar notab preg remap sirna syco tcode tfm tmap union water yank It seems to me this package consumes a little bit too much of the common binary name namespace, and it would be better if all binaries that originate from Emboss were prefixed or somehow namespaced to show that they are Emboss-specific. You could for example use a prefix like 'emboss-water' or 'eb-water'. Or all these binaries could be in their own path like /usr/bin/emboss/water and the general namespace would only have a single command 'emboss' or 'eb', which would then automatically route each command invocation to the correct binary, e.g. "eb water" would run /usr/bin/eb that then runs /usr/bin/emboss/water. I am filing this as severity "wishlist" to see if the maintainer thinks this makes sense and is reasonable, but I am not stating that this must be done. It is also good to have a bug report to record the request and where people can chip in and state if they agree with the general principle of avoiding an excessive number of binaries from a single Debian package.
