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| From | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames |
| Date | 2017-10-06 15:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <uxARs-23d-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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>> Now "import" is quite another kettle of fish: it's part of the
>> ImageMagick suite (not much to do with X, actually), which has the
>> (questionable) tradition of calling its things "display", "convert",
>> "identify", "compare"... or even "conjure"). Now ImageMagick is so
>> useful that people seem to tolerate it, but a prefix (e.g. "im-")
>> or a super-command ("im") would be more modern, yes.
> ImageMagick only gets away with it because of its age and ubiquity.
> It's grandfathered in.
How 'bout installing imagemagick executables into
a /usr/bin/im/ subdirectory?
This way, you can refer to it via `im/convert` but if you prefer to
use the "grandfather" name, you can just add /usr/bin/im/ to your PATH.
Stefan
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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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