Package review request: OpenBSD calendar(1) command

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Sat Feb 21 13:50:35 UTC 2009


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
>> I've packaged up the calendar(1) command from OpenBSD and created a 
>> review request:
>>
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485853
>>
>> Warren Togami reviewed it but raised an issue about the name of the 
>> actual command.  The concern is that the name might be too generic and 
>> could possibly collide with something else.
>>
>> The executable is /usr/bin/calendar, as taken from OpenBSD.
>>
>> If you have any reservations about the executable being named 
>> /usr/bin/calendar, reply here or post in the review request.
> 
> No, it's defacto standard on BSDs for a very long.
> 
> It's what *nix users expect to find as /usr/bin/calendar.
> 
> Bluntly speaking: Forcing a renamer would be truely silly.

+1, I think calendar can be "grandfathered" in...




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