[lug] LUG Digest, Vol 203, Issue 10

[Zan Lynx]

On 9/18/2020 7:41 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> alternatives is for multiple implementations of the same interface. E.g. 
> sendmail and postfix both implement the "sendmail" posix interface.
> 
> The namespace issue is the same as we're running out of names for bands.
> https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/17/fka-twigs-slaves-deers-band-name-shortage

In some packaging systems (Fedora I think?) I see the packages as 
something like "python-overused", "nodejs-overused", "rust-overused", 
"java-maven-overused"

They just pile on prefixes to make each use of "overused name" unique I 
think.

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