On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 01:16:02PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
> So _please_, please choose a different name for the binary in
> Debian,[1] because accessing a cloud service (that might not be around
> in 10 years, see e.g. Google News as for how such things can disappear
> in a relatively short time) is something really, really specific and
> really shouldn't take up a generic name that will haunt us for years to
> come.

"gdrive" is not too objectionable IMHO. 

I'd rather not see a package offering "drive" accepted to the archive.

> Also, _please_ don't symlink it - because then you're also reserving
> the name because people are going to use it.

Yes symlinking does not address this problem.

> [1] Suggestion: 'gdrive', if that's not already taken by something e.g.
> GLib/Gtk+-based (I haven't checked).

Oh snap :)


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