Subject: Re: misc/30175: (pf)spamd manpages inaccurate and erroneous
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/16/2005 12:33:02
The following reply was made to PR misc/30175; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
To: apb@cequrux.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/30175: (pf)spamd manpages inaccurate and erroneous
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 21:32:35 +0900
hi,
> > (assuming that people don't care its name unless it's in base :-)
>
> Please do not make a (pf)spamd package that conflicts with the
> mail/spamassassin package.
>
> More generally, even if there is no conflict (yet), I wish that packages
> that installed many executables would use a common prefix to name
> them all. Do not have the "foo" package install bin/foo, bin/bar
> and bin/baz, where bar and baz are things that ordinary users of the
> foo package will be unlikely to care about, or where the names are
> likely to conflict with other packages in the future; instead have the
> "foo" package install bin/foo, bin/foo-bar and bin/foo-baz; or perhaps
> bin/foo, libexec/foo/bar and libexec/foo/baz.
are you proposing to rename binaries in the most of packages?
i don't think it belongs to this PR.
YAMAMOTO Takashi