ddrescue and dd_rescue

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Sun Jul 3 06:31:40 UTC 2005


Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:
> 
> 
>>How about put them all (ddrescue + dd_rescue + dd_rhelp) in a single package ?
>>I think it would be the least confusing, with the two explanation paragraphs 
>>you just wrote slapped in a README...
> 
> I could do that as well...
> But I prefer single packages.
> Furthermore: What to name the package? dd_rescue? ddrescue? And why is 
> ddrescue included in dd_rescue or vice versa?
> 
> I fear that's unecessary confusion of the user.
> 

This entire situation of two upstreams, nearly identical in function, 
with almost the same name, is unnecessary confusion to users.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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