[Bug 575541] Review Request: xcalc - Scientific Calculator X11 Client

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R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> 2010-03-21 21:25:56 EDT ---
I am confused. The name is NOT available
> ok naming

'xcalc' is a binary in the active RHEL 3, has been around under that name
forever, is pervasive in existing X documentaiton as a non-scientific
calculator.  Simply, there is a namespace conflict against this as a package
name.  As the incumbent 'xcalc' is a non-scientific calculator, and I cannot
imagine a good reason to intentionally add a namespace conflict with radically
different functionality under the same name

[herrold at stones herrold]$ sudo yum provides "*bin/xcalc"
...
Looking in available packages for a providing package
Available package: XFree86-tools.i386 0:4.3.0-128.EL from update matches with
 /usr/X11R6/bin/xcalc

I see the earlier version also in tree at freedesktop

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/unsupported/programs/xcalc/

while Motif may be hated by some, that name is taken

Steve: any chance of a package rename to avoid this conflict?

-- Russ herrold

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