On 11.11.2010 12:39, Andrew Edmunds wrote: > Kay, Lennart, > > Kay Sievers wrote: >> Michael, any chance to check if it's possible to avoid the mangling of >> common util-linux tool names, and get a symlink in Debian package? >> After that we can drop the ifdef stuff here. > > We can ask, but it has been that way for at least a decade so I'm > guessing it's unlikely to be changed now. See this Debian bug from > 2001, marked wontfix. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=117596 > > The Debian position actually seems quite logical to me. Why do Fedora > (and SUSE?) need to ship two different versions of getty and hence > call one of them "alternate getty"? Other people seem to manage quite > well with only one.
I personally don't know the history of agetty resp. getty. [1] But if we want the declare the getty implementation within util-linux as sort-of the default, being bold and claiming the name "getty" might actually be a good idea. Regards, Michael [1] e.g. I didn't know that a stands for alternate -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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