Rupert Swarbrick skrev 2013-08-27 11:20:
> Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com>
> writes:
>> 2013/8/26 Alex Vondrak <ajvond...@gmail.com>:
>>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Björn Lindqvist 
>>> <bjourne-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> The binary name "factor" was already taken by a program in coreutils
>>>> so I had to change it to "factor-run".
>>>
>>> How about something like "factor-lang" or "factor-listener"?
>>
>> I actually called the binary factor-lang. But then I needed a
>> factor-run bash script too because Factor isn't happy with having the
>> standard library in a different directory from the binary file.
>
> The obvious thing to do, which I think is the standard approach for
> packaging such programs, is the following. Just install Factor, with the
> binary called "factor", into some directory in /usr/share. For example,
> /usr/share/factor would be fine. Then create a symlink or a shell script
> in /usr/bin pointing to /usr/share/factor, which is called factor-lang
> or whatever.

Interesting! I thought putting binaries outside of bin directories were 
heavily discouraged. Which is why I choose to rename it. Do you have an 
example of a package that follows the approach you are suggesting? Then 
I could just copy that.

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