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Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Feb 8 15:51:47 UTC 2010


On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:20:42 -0500
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Well, the reason appears to be that cdrecord is not available in Fedora unless 
> >> you install it yourself, Fedora has chosen to take the respected cdrecord name 
> >> and put wodim in its place. This seems to me as ethical as selling replica Rolex 
> >> watches, the user get something other than what they expect.
> >>     
> >
> > In which case please remmeber to do the following
> >
> > mv ssh openssh
> > mv sshd opensshd
> > mv cp gnucp
> > mv ls gnuls 
> >
> > etc..
> >   
> 
> Do you feel that any of these accept the commands of the original and 
> are incapable of correctly producing the desired result?

There are certainly cases that is true for almost any command. There have
been many times where ssh and openssh were not fully compatible.

An even more classic example is "sendmail" where multiple commands that
are not sendmail claim to be that on many systems and provide interface
compatibility. This to the point that standards now recognize it as an
interface naming not just an application.

Alan


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