trash-cli : Looking for a reviewer

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 10:00:44 UTC 2008


On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:19:31 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sunday 05 October 2008 02:36:20 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:10:06AM +0200, Jean-François Martin wrote:
> > > the package because he think that executables are too generic (trash,
> 
> > There is only trash that I find too generic...
> 
> speaking of too generic... how about:
> 
> % rpm -qf `which testparm`
> samba-common-3.2.3-0.20.fc9.x86_64

Without a doubt, there are examples of poor naming of files. You've found
one. It would better be called "samba-testparm". The samba-common package
contains more such poorly named files: /usr/bin/net, /usr/bin/profiles
samba-client contains: /usr/bin/rpcclient

It's no justification for letting more such files into the distribution,
however. The more packages like that, the higher the risk of implicit
conflicts between existing packages or packages to be added in the future.




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