[csw-maintainers] Idea for a new check: binary name conflicts

[Peter Bonivart]

On 12 jun 2011, at 03:57, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Excerpts from Maciej Bliziński's message of Sat Jun 11 19:18:08 -0400 2011:
>
> Hi Maciej,
>
>> One of our guidelines has historically been to not provide binaries
>> in /opt/csw/bin named the same way as the ones in /usr/bin.  For
>> instance, bug 4533 has been filed because cups packages provide
>> /opt/csw/bin/lp which conflicts with /usr/bin/lp.
>
> I'm not sure I'd consider this a problem.  If you're using cups, you
> most likely want /opt/csw/bin/lp.  You don't want to have to learn new
> commands for things that have traditional names (lp, lpstat, etc)
> because cups is in play either.
>
>> What are your thoughts on adding a check for binary name conflicts?
>
> I don't see it as a conflict personally.  The filesystem provides a
> separate name space and we're using it.  If you want the system lp,
> either set the path accordingly or fully qualify it.  No point in
> jumping through hoops for something like this, imo.

I agree with Ben here.

/peter