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Bug#: 104086
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Martin Holzer (RETIRED) <mholzer@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>
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Description:   Opened: 2005-08-28 18:29 0000
The executable name for the gnu banner (from app-misc) is the same as that from
the traditional banner program (from games-misc), causing confusion and making
it necessary to use the full path. Additionally one of them is only for users in
games group (the real one) and the other for anyone (the fake gnu replacement).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge app-misc/banner
2. see how poor it is in all aspects
3. emerge games-misc/bsd-games

Actual Results:  
For users not in "games" only the first will be accessible, otherwise only the
first will be run by the command "banner" and the second with
"/usr/games/bin/banner". At the same time "man banner" works for all users and
shows specs that gnu banner doesn't even support.

Expected Results:  
I would expect the gnu banner's executable to be renamed to something else, and
possibly be moved to games (or move the bsd-banner to /usr/bin). The program
isn't even suitable for what most users would need "banner" for.

A real "banner" program would be a peace of cake to implement, especially if it
made use of gnome's Pango or similar library.

------- Comment #1 From Robert Muchacki (RETIRED) 2005-11-02 15:54:20 0000 -------
Any changes on this?

------- Comment #2 From Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-11-03 10:17:49 0000 -------
No, there is no progress.

We haven't decided exactly what we should do with it yet.

------- Comment #3 From SpanKY 2005-11-03 10:37:39 0000 -------
i say we just make the packages block each other

------- Comment #4 From Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-11-03 10:48:09 0000 -------
I'm for that.

Should we also have the games-misc version install into a non-games location or no?

------- Comment #5 From SpanKY 2005-11-03 10:50:39 0000 -------
be kind of a pain if we started having bsd-games install some bins to
diff dirs i think ...

------- Comment #6 From Tupone Alfredo 2006-07-28 15:23:31 0000 -------
Made bsd-games blocked by banner.
Assigning this to app-misc/banner mantainer

------- Comment #7 From Tristan Heaven 2006-10-19 22:34:27 0000 -------
Block added to app-misc/banner.

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