Re: execline/imagemagick namespace collision

Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:44:29 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.package
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Hi, the /command name "import" is allocated for the execline package.
> Unfortunately the imagemagick package also provides a command "import",

 ImageMagick provides a lot of "generic" command names, which don't
fit well in a global naming scheme. The problem has been reported to
them more times than I can remember ; AFAIK, they didn't answer.
 Most people I know prefix the ImageMagick command names with "IM",
so that there's no confusion. Another approach, better suited to
the /package way, might be to always use the explicit path :
/opt/ImageMagick/bin/import vs. /package/admin/execline/command/import.

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 Ska