[ITP] bashdb, bash_completion
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Tue Oct 26 19:41:00 GMT 2004
Reini Urban wrote:
> Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>> I read your email. I guess my mind boggled at the concept that anyone
>> would be so..., er, bold as to assume that they could trump someone
>> else's
>> package by using the name "bash.exe" when there is already an extremely
>> well-known package which uses that name.
>>
>> As I said. Work this out with Ronald.
>>
>> And please don't send any more "ITPs" which wipe out other parts of
>> people's packages.
>
> Why not?
The current setup.exe infrastructure doesn't provide for elegant handling of
multiple packages providing the same file. The name "/bin/bash.exe" belongs
to the bash package. It is therefore NOT available for a bashdb package to
use. End of story.
Max.
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