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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames |
| Date | 2017-10-06 15:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <uxBaN-29h-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:24:11AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> 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.
The problem with grandparents is that everyone has to agree. Just imagine
a distro doing that. Torches and pitchforks! ;-)
(And while we're painting the shed, I'd go for a /usr/bin/im.d, with a
dispatcher script in /usr/bin/im or something...)
Of course, a sysadmin could do that on her box...
Cheers
- -- t
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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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