From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_03_06, DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN,DMARC_MISSING,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from lucifer.evil-core.com (evil-core.com [63.160.181.167]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592CD2005FFB for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:27:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (bob@localhost) by lucifer.evil-core.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g2DCIMg16189 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:18:22 GMT Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:18:22 +0000 (/etc/localtime) From: Bob Phan X-Sender: bob@lucifer.evil-core.com To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [gentoo-dev] conflicting executable names Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 1e3cd5af-e76e-4893-a2b9-1de45ade9b0f X-Archives-Hash: 77c44b2686a70300cb2195397e7a793a 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. -- /* * Bob Phan * Computational Chemistry Informatics * Neurogen Corporation * (203)488-8201 x4645 * * To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. */