Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4

From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Aug 13, 2005, 23:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20050813235716.GB6844@mythryan2.michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050812103555.GG5411@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

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> David Lang:
> > after so many years of software development (and with the policy of never 
> > having conflicting command names) what three letter combinations are still 
> > avilable?
> > 
> Lots.
> 
> > I'm assuming that the much smaller pool of two letter commands was long 
> > since exhausted, but if not what two letter commands are available?
> > 
> Lots of them, I hope, but all of them obscure.
> 
> We even have 25 one-letter commands that are free. My /usr/bin/ only has
> 'w'. And if we run out, we could branch off into other alphabets;
> unfortunately, not everybody has a quick way to type an ??. Or ??. Or ???. ;-)

"gt" seems free on my machine here. I haven't poke around at all the other ones that have slightly different sets of software, but searching on the Debian packages search engine:

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fgt&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386

cogito in Debian seems to have taken it already for git, anyway.

We can make the conversion easy for people by providing this shell script for a few weeks:

	#!/bin/sh
	echo "Don't get a git - use gt!
	gt $*

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Ryan Anderson
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