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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:15:21
Message-Id: 20131212151507.GA4043@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC by Samuli Suominen
1 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 09:41:10AM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 >
3 > On 11/12/13 22:41, William Hubbs wrote:
4 > > All,
5 > >
6 > > We got a request from Debian to rename the "rc" binary of OpenRC due to
7 > > a naming conflict they have. They have a port of the at&t plan 9 shell,
8 > > which has a binary named "rc" as well[1].
9 >
10 > which we ship as app-shells/rc and rename 'rc' to 'rcsh' for unique name
11 >
12 > just saying
13
14 This is a separate topic, but maybe we should stop renaming it after a
15 transition period. I am not comfortable with renaming upstream
16 binaries at the distro level.
17
18 William

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