Hi, What are other distributions doing?
I've check and OpenSuse apparently lives happy with having /usr/sbin/node for axnode and /usr/bin/node for node.js. Has anyone contacted them about this? Regarding the often-mentioned "many users run 'node script' from the command-line"... so what? If we can get enough distributions (Debian, Suse, Fedora, MacPorts and brew would likely be enough) to rename the node.js binary, upstream will be forced to change from /usr/bin/node to /usr/bin/nodejs If this were some desktop application, I'd have doubts, but axnode being a daemon which runs on remote locations which may become isolated after a rename just because the JavaScript toolkit of the week decided to use a very generic name... sorry but no, does not look good to me. On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Carl Fürstenberg <azat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > There has been an log struggle between the nodejs package and the node > package, which is still unresolved (bug #611698 for example) And I > wonder now what the future should look like. > > To summarize the problem: > * the nodejs upstream binary is called "node", and the upstream > developers have refused to change it's binary name to nodejs for > debian; > * The the hamradio package "node" shipping a binary called "node", and > as it's so old, the developers argue that the package must ship a > binary called "node" or breakage will occur. > * The reason the nodejs developers want to ship the binary as "node" > is because all programs written for nodejs all has /usr/bin/node in > it's shebang > * the nodejs package are not allowed to conflict on the node package > just because the binary name is the same > > As I'm not a hamradio user, I'm off course biased towards letting > nodejs having the "node" binary and let it pass to testing. But we > must find a solution to this, as nodejs is getting more and more used, > and developers are forced to install nodejs from source to be able to > use it instead of install it via the package manager. > > Regards, > > Carl Fürstenberg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/cacxjfdh5zyth6q-zdldafqneczbf3bqagrcahsaipenapbi...@mail.gmail.com > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cakcboks4k3bwngdae+x8yfz0s6rgqykof_jhg0+mttrtgwj...@mail.gmail.com
