Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | tags 306089 wontfix > | > It would be good if the configuration program name was consistent > | > with the other programs like apt-config, fvwm-config, gtk-config ... > | > so please rename > | > | I cannot see a consistent naming here. In fact in /usr/bin there are > | only two without the dash on my system (vs. 12 with it). On the other > | hand, in /usr/sbin there are 11 without it vs. 3 with a dash, and in > | /sbin there are only four, all without dash. > | > | Furthermore, I'm quite sure that Thomas Esser, the author of teTeX, will > | refuse the renaming. Do you agree that we better close this bug? > > If possible, please reconsider. While the situation is now mixed the > other authors have been contacted to think the naming. I believe > if would be good to have consitent naming accross all the programs.
If this is a mass bug filing, have you asked on debian-devel before doing this? CC'ing. Anyway, I don't see the advantage of changing names here: - If you know that there is some *config program for package foo, you'll probably find it whether it has a dash or not - simply type foo TAB, and there you are. - If you don't know that the program exists, it doesn't matter at all. - You trade one inconsistency for the other. teTeX's binaries are consistently named *without* dashes, /except/ for the new tools fmtutil-sys, updmap-sys and texconfig-sys. In this case the extension has a specific meaning (system-wide as opposed to per-user) that relates foo-sys to foo. Of course this is not the case for a possible tex-config. - It seems to me that you want to force a consistency in naming upon a bunch of things which in fact isn't consistent with in functionality. For some programs of packages, the *config executable is the main or even only way to sensibly change things (except editing conffiles), for others it's just for a specific purpose, or still experimental. Or from a different package... texconfig is by no means *the* canonical way to change settings in a TeX system. Frankly speaking, I have never used it except when bug reports came in about it... Are you going to request renaming of /usr/bin/*conf to *-config, too? Come on, find yourself a task that really brings us forward. Regards, Frank P.S. currently not subscribed to -devel -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
