On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:20:47PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> >>   Policy also states that different packages must not install commands
> >>   with different functionality with the same name.
> >
> > Such packages would have to Conflicts anyway, and gratuituous conflict
> > must be avoided. This is not a waivable requiremrent.
> 
> As a strawman example, here is what I was thinking of when I asked that:
> 
>  nodejs package adds a "nodejs" command which behaves exactly like "node"
>  in Debian (this has already been done) and upstream (working on it).

IMHO, /usr/bin/node is much too generic a name to be in any package.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 

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