On 05/11/2012 09:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary <greg.mcgary@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands "lid" is also the >>> same as an existing command, though installed in a different place. id-utils >>> has /usr/bin/lid, while libuser has /usr/sbin/lid. >> >> Yeah, that's come up before. There's no great solution I'm afraid, >> one or the other will have to change > > Technically there is no need to change a name. > In Debian, one can have two lid programs installed, one in /usr/bin > and the other in /usr/sbin[*], so why not in Fedora? > > Sure, a different solution would be better, but renaming a command like > idutils' lid (in use by some for >15 years) does not seem reasonable. > > Any opinions on whether this issue is big enough to NAK > a review request or addition of the package to Fedora? Well /usr/sbin is proposed to be merged with /usr/bin in Fedora 18 Anyway I think having the same name in different paths is too problematic. id-utils (1996) seems to predate libuser (2001), so it's unfortunate that libuser picked the clashing name. I'm not sure what to suggest though. The simplest is to rename the id-utils lid on fedora, which will not break anything, but does introduce awkwardness in future script portability, needing something like: lid-utils > /dev/null && LID=lid-utils || LID=lid /etc/alternatives probably isn't appropriate as I'm assuming the commands do not overlap in functionality. cheers, Pádraig. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
