From: Steve Kostecke <steve@debian.org>
To: Patrick Ouellette <pat@flying-gecko.net>
Cc: Dan Smith <dsmith@danplanet.com>,
linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, debian-hams@lists.debian.org,
ralf@linux-mips.org, ax25@x-berg.in-berlin.de
Subject: Re: AX25 and related software's future in Debian
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 11:28:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1SQLMS-00025Q-Iq@mail.kostecke.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 May 2012 11:14:24 EDT." <20120504151424.GC24655@flying-gecko.net>
Patrick Ouellette said:
>Playing Devil's advocate - the argument has been put forth in the
>"other discussion" that according to popcon (the Debian popularity
>contest), node has 81 installs, and 17 reporting as "active" while the
>nodejs package has 720 installs with 163 reporting as "active." So their
>conclusion is the node package is only used by a small community.
I've not had time to read that entire thread, but it seems to me that
renaming well known binaries violates the Principle Of Least
Astonishment.
Has anyone considered making nodejs and ax25 conflict? That would be an
easy way of sidestepping this entire namespace issue.
--
Steve Kostecke <steve@debian.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-04 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-04 1:32 AX25 and related software's future in Debian Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 1:46 ` Dave Platt
2012-05-04 2:10 ` Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 1:53 ` Kamal Mostafa
2012-05-04 2:03 ` Charles Suprin
2012-05-04 2:17 ` Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 2:20 ` Alejandro Santos
2012-05-04 5:20 ` Kim, VK5FJ
2012-05-04 14:34 ` Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 14:06 ` Dan Smith
2012-05-04 15:14 ` Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 15:35 ` Dan Smith
2012-05-04 16:28 ` Steve Kostecke [this message]
2012-05-04 16:57 ` Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 17:50 ` Bill Vodall
2012-05-04 18:06 ` Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 18:32 ` Dan Smith
2012-05-04 18:49 ` Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 19:01 ` Dan Smith
2012-05-04 19:31 ` Patrick Ouellette
2012-05-04 22:52 ` Damien Gardner Jnr
[not found] ` <CAPSBm51zYFpfPa0Rqvjemv4KGh-NQfFmFTcW07B8KzpTK_E8bw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-05-05 3:00 ` Kris Kirby
2012-05-05 13:33 ` Thomas Osterried
2012-05-23 18:15 ` Wesley J. Landaker
2012-05-23 20:38 ` Nate Bargmann
2012-05-23 22:48 ` Damien Gardner Jnr
2012-05-24 12:18 ` C.J. Adams-Collier
2012-05-24 12:33 ` IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR
2012-05-24 23:05 ` Marius Petrescu
2012-05-24 23:29 ` IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR
2012-05-25 0:02 ` Marius Petrescu
2012-05-25 0:04 ` Marius Petrescu
2012-05-25 0:56 ` Bob Nielsen
2012-05-25 1:46 ` Nate Bargmann
[not found] <S1754044Ab2EQTsl/20120517194841Z+66@vger.kernel.org>
2012-05-17 20:03 ` Charles Boling (AD7UF)
2012-05-17 20:25 ` John Goerzen
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