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> Yeah the name collision is unfortunate, but probably fine. collisions, lol % apt-cache search biff biff - a mail notification tool gnubiff - mail noti
by m463 5mo ago
> Yeah the name collision is unfortunate, but probably fine.
collisions, lol
% apt-cache search biff
biff - a mail notification tool
gnubiff - mail notification program for GNOME (and others)
wmbiff - Dockable app that displays information about mailboxes
xlbiff - mail notification pop-up with configurable message scans
(along with 9 more matches without biff in command name)
- dredmorbius 5mo agoThose are: 1. Not precise name collisions. 2. All mail-notification utilities, as was the original biff. And since we're mentioning Debian, it has a policy requiring unique names within the Debian archive to be unique. Precedence goes to the earlier software packaged. Installed programs must also have unique names within a given system. The datetime Swiss army knife utility discussed here violates both policies. As Debian policy is used both for Debian and derived distros (see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#Debian-based https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#De...> for a partial listing), it has considerable influence.
- burntsushi 5mo agoI've renamed the project to bttf :-)
- dredmorbius 5mo agoThat works on Debian ;-) <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bttf https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bttf> Might want to ping the mods (hn@ycombinator.com) to update this submission title. Edit: I'd typoed "bttf" as "btff" initially. Corrected shows partial but not exact matches on "libttfautohint1" and variants.