Re: Epiphany executable name change

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 18:13, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are going to be forced to change epiphany executable name because
> it conflicts with an older project distributed in debian.
> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196491 for details.
> 
> Someone proposed, while we are at it, to rename to gnome-web-browser.
> Has anyone problems with it ? Assuming it's ok to do it, would be better
> to use a symlink (and to rename the real executable to epiphany-browser
> to avoid the conflict) or to rename the real executable directly ?
> 
> The mime db and control center will have to be patched with the updated
> name.
> 
> Thanks for any feedback

Renaming the epiphany executable seems to be a pretty bad ABI break. It
can break all sort of user configurations. I'm not sure a collision with
some old game is worth that. I mean, it took quite some time before
anyone even noticed.

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