Re: Rename the package command

sorry for the late reply

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just found out that there's a package called "mailagent" in Debian
> which also contains a binary file called 'package'. This means users
> who have mailagent and autopackage installed can't use both at the
> same time. So I suggest switching to a new name for the terminal
> frontend, like 'apkg' or 'autopackage'.

How common is this mailagent program? We've never heard of any issues
AFAIK during the 5 or so years autopackage has been alive.


> Another reason would be that 'package' doesn't really do what it once
> was named for (http://autopackage.org/faq.html#2_5 ) and certainly
> never will be, as PackageKit already implemented something like this.

Yeah, this is true. Might be good enough reason to rename it.

> For the 1.4 release I think there should still be a 'package' command
> which forwards all calls to the new command after telling the user
> that 'package' is deprecated.

Good idea.

> What do you think?

The purist in me agree with you. But the pragmatic guy on my shoulder
says it may not be worth it :)

Mostly because we're solving a problem which I'm not sure exists for
any of our users... (please convince me otherwise)

-Isak

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