[csw-maintainers] Alternatives

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > Here's the alternatives package for you to test:
> >
> > http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing/alternatives-1.15.5.3,REV=2009.12.10-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz
> >
> > To address the concern that the executable name is long: it's not
> > going to be typed by humans.  It will be used by postinstall scripts
> > (or class action scripts).
> 
> Then how will humans specify what they want?

What's the concern about the command name being too long when we live in
an age of shell auto-completion? As a related question: we port a known
utility to our platform (Solaris), why not keep the known name? That's
what we do with almost all the other software.

Sebastian