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* [gentoo-dev] conflicting executable names
@ 2002-03-13 12:18 Bob Phan
  2002-03-13 23:33 ` [gentoo-dev] Keychain wonderings Brent Cook
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Bob Phan @ 2002-03-13 12:18 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

What would the gentoo policy be to handle applications that want to use
the same executable name, but do not perform the same function and are
not interchangable.

For example, I wanted to quickly package up rename
(http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/rename-1.1.tar.gz)

It is a slick little utility that allows you to rename a bunch of
files based on extended regexs (there's a review on www.unixreview.com).

Anyway, the executable it creates is named 'rename' which conflicts with
rename from sys-apps/util-linux.  How should this be treated?  For the
moment, I'm just calling it Rename.

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