Program names and "pollution"

Posted Apr 4, 2019 5:37 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Program names and "pollution" by civodul
Parent article: Program names and "pollution"

Debian had a namespace conflict between the older /usr/sbin/node (from package ax25-node , used by amature-radio operators[1]) and /usr/bin/node from the new package nodejs. Should be no conflict between the two, right? But what if you have a nodejs program for managing a ham radio[1]?

[1] Or however this is called.