Renaming may be an option for a screensaver, but it would defeat the purpose of a stable system to rename command-line tools, e.g., breaking the user’s scripts in the process. Aliases can’t be desirable, either, as the user would still think they are running foo and report bugs to foo upstream even though it’s really bar that only has an alias of foo …
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Stable names
Date: 2016-04-05 02:57 pm (UTC)