On 12 jun 2011, at 03:57, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Maciej Bliziński's message of Sat Jun 11 19:18:08 -0400 2011: > > Hi Maciej, > >> One of our guidelines has historically been to not provide binaries >> in /opt/csw/bin named the same way as the ones in /usr/bin. For >> instance, bug 4533 has been filed because cups packages provide >> /opt/csw/bin/lp which conflicts with /usr/bin/lp. > > I'm not sure I'd consider this a problem. If you're using cups, you > most likely want /opt/csw/bin/lp. You don't want to have to learn new > commands for things that have traditional names (lp, lpstat, etc) > because cups is in play either. > >> What are your thoughts on adding a check for binary name conflicts? > > I don't see it as a conflict personally. The filesystem provides a > separate name space and we're using it. If you want the system lp, > either set the path accordingly or fully qualify it. No point in > jumping through hoops for something like this, imo.
I agree with Ben here. /peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
