Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Bug#843021: RFP: yarn -- a fast, reliable, and secure package manager for Node.js"): > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 02:02:31PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I searched github for `yarn'. > > You don't find my software on github. I do not want to rely on > non-free services like github.
Indeed. Mine neither. But it's a way of finding out what already might exist when choosing a name. Of course another answer would be that someone choosing a command name ought to search something like this: https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=%2Fyarn&mode=path&suite=unstable&arch=any which readily shows your yarn, of course. > > There are lots of hits for other > > programs, including: [...] > > How many of those were public in mid-2013? I have no idea. > > Obviously "yarn" is a really bad name. Someone who picks a name like > > that must obviously expect that they can't necessarily have that name > > in every namespace. > > When I chose the name in 2013, I didn't other software that was called > yarn. Fair enough. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.