Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

From	Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user, linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames
Date	2017-10-13 14:00 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:16:41AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>Many of these packages (especially old X stuff) “should” migrate to
>the command/subcommand way of life.

That might be too much work and result in compatibility problems, but
maybe instead we could move all the X stuff to another path, I dunno,
like /usr/share/X11R7/bin?

(/s)

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Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames harry666t@gmail.com (Kamil Cholewiński) - 2017-10-05 22:30 +0200
  Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2017-10-05 22:40 +0200
    Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-06 00:20 +0200
      Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-06 09:00 +0200
        Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-06 15:00 +0200
          Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-10-06 15:30 +0200
            Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-06 15:50 +0200
              Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-10-13 14:00 +0200
                Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-13 14:40 +0200
            Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Jerome BENOIT <calculus@rezozer.net> - 2017-10-06 16:30 +0200
              Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-06 16:40 +0200
          Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-06 23:20 +0200
      Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-10-13 14:00 +0200

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