Package review request: OpenBSD calendar(1) command

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 19:33:59 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:06:58 Eric Sandeen wrote:
[...]
> I mean, "cat" is short for "concatenate" which some future concatenation
> utility may also wish to use.  Not only is "concatenate" a very common
> word, "cat" is a very simple abbrevation which may clash with "catalog"
> or "categorize" - Shall we also change its name?  Where does this stop?
>
> -Eric
>
> p.s. /usr/bin/the-utility-formerly-known-as-calendar does have a certain
> ring to it though I suppose.

All the core shell utilities should be renamed "core-util-foo", especially all 
those ones with two letter names like "cp" and "mv". Not to mention common 
words like "mount" ...




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