Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-16 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Put it this way: in the package review process, *must* the name conflict be cause for rejection? A direct file conflict would definitely be a blocker ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts ) The case where one command

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Michal Schmidt wrote: On 05/14/2012 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: I'm pretty sure that naming conflicts in /usr/bin have happened before in Fedora, I'm not sure how they were resolved. Even in a relatively minimal system, I see many programs installed in both /sbin and

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-15 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
2012-05-11 12:07 keltezéssel, Jim Meyering írta: Pádraig Brady wrote: id-utils (1996) seems to predate libuser (2001), so it's unfortunate that libuser picked the clashing name. It goes back pretty far. From idutils.texi's history node: First posted to comp.sources.unix in September

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command,

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-14 Thread Michal Schmidt
On 05/14/2012 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: I'm pretty sure that naming conflicts in /usr/bin have happened before in Fedora, I'm not sure how they were resolved. Even in a relatively minimal system, I see many programs installed in both /sbin and /bin, though none seem

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-13 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez
Greg McGary wrote: It would be great if GNU id-utils could be included in future Fedora releases. please, add it to *Package maintainers wishlist* : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command, though installed in a different place.  id-utils has /usr/bin/lid, while libuser has

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-11 Thread Michal Schmidt
On 05/11/2012 10:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Technically there is no need to change a name. In Debian, one can have two lid programs installed, one in /usr/bin and the other in /usr/sbin[*], so why not in Fedora? Technically there is no problem (at least until we decide remove the distinction

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/11/2012 09:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command, though installed in a different place. id-utils

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 05/11/2012 09:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command, though installed in a

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-11 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command, though installed in a

Re: Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

2012-05-10 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Greg McGary greg.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: Minor conflict: the name of one of id-utils main commands lid is also the same as an existing command, though installed in a different place.  id-utils has /usr/bin/lid, while libuser has /usr/sbin/lid. Yeah, that's come