Questions tagged [tag-synonyms]
This tag is for questions about tag synonyms (how they work, who can create them, etc).
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Searching for [cd] should inform the user to disambiguate the search instead of returning 0 results
Tag in question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/cd-command
Incorrect search I performed: [windows-subsystem-for-linux] [cd]
Correct search: [windows-subsystem-for-linux] [cd-command]
Searching ...
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Tag synonym rsyslogd -> rsyslog
Just wanted to propose a tag synonym from rsyslogd to rsyslog.
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Tag "not-root-user" as synonym for "non-root-user"
I have stumbled across two tags which seem to cover exactly the same thing yet only differ by one letter: non-root-user (42 questions) vs. not-root-user (371 questions).
I have created a synonym ...
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Tag Synonym: "Container" and "Containers"
I do not have enough points on either tag to suggest a synonym properly, but anyone here who does should:
container
containers
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Can [resolvconf] be made a synonym of the [resolv.conf] tag?
I think they should be made synonyms. They refer to the exact same thing even. Here's the tag wiki for resolv.conf:
The resolv.conf file contains information that is read by the resolver (a set of C ...
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Can we have a [wsl]->[windows-subsystem-for-linux] synonym?
As discussed here, aliasing wsl would make sense.
Should and could someone with enough reputation make that alias?
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Should version specific tags for [gnome] be abandoned now that GNOME changed versioning?
The GNOME project adopted a new versioning scheme last year because with GTK 4 they found it inappropriate to continue having the major number tied to GTK version. The next version following GNOME 3....
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Is virtualization always a virtual machine?
Here in Unix and Linux Stack Exchange I used the virtualization tag and it was changed to virtual-machine automatically.
A virtual computing machine is a machine, a virtual operating system is a ...
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Overlap between "software-installation" and "package-management"
There has been recent effort by a new community member to tag (in particular old) questions related to software installation with the software-installation tag. Since this also includes questions ...
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Lets combine all the awk tags
UPDATE: all awk variant tags have now been defined to be synonyms for the one tag, awk, so the below discussion is now only retained by request for historical purposes.
Not really looking for an ...
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Change macos/osx tag synonym [duplicate]
Currently the macos tag is a synonym of osx, however OS X ended in 2015 and Apple's operating system has been called macOS since. I think the tags should be reversed so that osx is a synonym for ...
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What's the purpose of source vs. source-code tags?
Asking a question, I just noticed there are two seemingly identical tags (which aren't aliases at the time of this writing): source and source-code.
I have no strong opinion about which one should be ...
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Should we add a [trackpad] tag?
I think we should add a tag for trackpad - as a tag synonym of touchpad. "Trackpad" is in common usage, partly due to Apple. But we only have a tag for touchpad.
I noticed there were over 20 ...
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The [X] tag should be aliased to [X11]. (Agree / disagree?)
Questions tagged x
This tag can be used for questions regarding the X Window System. For X Version 11 you can use the tag x11.
I guess people know they are running X, but they are less confident ...
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What's the return status of the exit code?
Which do we want to keep and which should be synonymed to the other?
return-status, with 118 questions, says:
Use this tag If your question revolves around determining or utilizing the return status (...
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