I have the opposite feeling about package lethargy, I don't want to remember that exa is now eza at the time that my distro finally gets around to packaging eza, I want to do it now when it's right in front of me.
I'll go try lsd instead (and then I'll try the other ls rewrite, har har)
Ehh, I guess I'm your opposite. I want to be insulated from exciting upstream developments, especially for stable, boring stuff like coreutils. I want those to be boring. I don't want "exa is now eza" or whatever push-notified to my command line on a random Tuesday.
The Debian maintainer of the exa package can, and probably will, either:
- just add a backward compat alias
- make eza a transitive dependency so that exa can be sunset cleanly and adds a NEWS file entry that every user will see on upgrade to the version that drops the exa binary.
I'll go try lsd instead (and then I'll try the other ls rewrite, har har)