On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:19:56PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: > > I'm not sure I really agree. The name list lists the BSD tools under there > > original names. We had to rename two in Debian because of conflicts, but the > > new names do not mean as much to a new user as the original ones. > > Do you mean you're prioritising the interests of users coming from > BSD who are going to want to know which package to install to get a > "banner" on their path? That's pointless: installing this package > _won't_ put a "banner" on their path, and besides, it's almost > certain to have already been pulled in by the dependencies from > man-db and so on.
Could you please point me to the point in my email where I talked about BSD users? And where I said that I prioritize some users over others? > Maybe something like this would work for everyone: > > It provides banner (as printerbanner), calendar, col, colcrt, colrm, column, > from, hexdump (or hd), look, lorder, ncal (or cal), ul, and write (as > bsd-write). That sounds reasonable to me. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Michael at BorussiaFan dot De, Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo/Skype: michaelmeskes, Jabber: mes...@jabber.org VfL Borussia! Forca Barca! Go SF 49ers! Use: Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
