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On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:56:36PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 03:43:20PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >(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 somet
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:16:41AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Many of these packages (especially old X stuff) “should” migrate to
the command/subcommand way of life.
That might be too much work and result in compatibility problems, but
maybe instead we could move all the X stuff to another p
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 03:43:20PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
(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...)
Software Collections https://www.softwarecollections.org have a pretty
robust way of managing this sort of t
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:56:08AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:52:49AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de 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 o
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 06:06:33PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 06/10/17 17:24, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[...]
> We can also add the prefix im- to each executable.
> For instance, the tools coming with the nauty package are prefixed with
Hello,
On 06/10/17 17:24, 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 "c
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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 thi
>> 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
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:52:49AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de 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"... o
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:16:41AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
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> Another one is "import" - should simply NEVER be a program name -
> should be reserved.
>
> man page: import - saves any visible window on an X server and
> outputs it as an im
On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 01:32:47PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2017, Kamil Cholewiński wrote:
> > I wrote a short script that calls "apt-file find 'bin/'", filters
> > results to include only stuff from /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin, and
> > looks for basename clashes. Turns out, i
On Thu, 05 Oct 2017, Kamil Cholewiński wrote:
> I wrote a short script that calls "apt-file find 'bin/'", filters
> results to include only stuff from /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin, and
> looks for basename clashes. Turns out, in Stretch, there are 97 hits.
> (If you also include /usr/games, 126.)
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