-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:24:11AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Now "import" is quite another kettle of fish: it's part of the > >> ImageMagick suite (not much to do with X, actually), which has the > >> (questionable) tradition of calling its things "display", "convert", > >> "identify", "compare"... or even "conjure"). Now ImageMagick is so > >> useful that people seem to tolerate it, but a prefix (e.g. "im-") > >> or a super-command ("im") would be more modern, yes. > > ImageMagick only gets away with it because of its age and ubiquity. > > It's grandfathered in. > > How 'bout installing imagemagick executables into > a /usr/bin/im/ subdirectory? > This way, you can refer to it via `im/convert` but if you prefer to > use the "grandfather" name, you can just add /usr/bin/im/ to your PATH.
The problem with grandparents is that everyone has to agree. Just imagine a distro doing that. Torches and pitchforks! ;-) (And while we're painting the shed, I'd go for a /usr/bin/im.d, with a dispatcher script in /usr/bin/im or something...) Of course, a sysadmin could do that on her box... Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlnXiHgACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYXAwCePGDD2ipc1tmUl6OknUMuHZaq AucAni1teAqtW9AWqWgMmm+d95afyjkm =96E1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----