On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 07:40 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 02:36:45AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > Apparently, the way this is done in Debian [1] is that the program is > > > installed as /usr/bin/prename and provided as an alternative to the > > > util-linux version of /usr/bin/rename via the alternatives system. > > [...] > > Nah, please don't do that. This rename and that rename have different > > option syntax, so they are not interchangeable. We're better off just > > having a different name. > > Yeah. The Alternatives system should only be used in the very rare > cases where two different programs provide the same functionality and > drop-in equivalence to a reasonable level. And yet we are considering making /usr/bin/python user-configurable between two not-at-all-drop-in-equivalent binaries! Owen [ Sorry for the off-topic comment in this thread ] _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
