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Re: plz -> curl?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: plz -> curl?
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 18:59:05 -0400

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  > It's always easy to retrospectively decide which package should have
  > which name (after the dust has settled and one of the contenders for
  > a given name has accrued a decisive advantage), but backward
  > compatibility as well as the need to choose a name before the dust has
  > settled (which can take a very long time) mean that non-obvious names
  > are here to stay.

We can define a new, clear name and use it to refer to the package by,
and keep the old name as an alias.  That gets the best of these two
worlds.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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