[Debichem-devel] Bug#446726: file conflicts between packages

[Nicholas Breen]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:17:52PM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> As a GROMACS user, I'd prefer to keep the name "genbox" since it's one
> of the tools in the GROMACS suite that is used quite often and a lot of
> my scripts would need an update to work on a name change. I think there
> are more people in the same situation.

I agree with Manuel on this point; also, since GROMACS runs are often
set up on one machine and then uploaded to a number-crunching cluster
somewhere else (which is quite possibly running a different OS
entirely), script breakage due to changing the command name is even more
likely.  #403879 wasn't a problem since that command is nearly unused,
but it's the rare GROMACS run that *doesn't* need genbox.

However, radiance also ships a large number of files in /usr/bin, which
I assume are scriptable too?  Is renaming the command likely to cause
equivalent problems for your users?



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Nicholas Breen
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