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I've used GraphViz/Dot (I call `dot` in my terminal, but the package to install is `graphviz`) for probably two decades at this point, and what is what is still not clear to me, kind of like the whole imagemagick/convert thing which is similar, at least to someone on the outside.

Not sure why they can't come up with new names, use those, then when you invoke the program in the terminal, call the binary the same thing, instead of mucking about with calling everything differently, except some things, that share names.





> Not sure why they can't ...

This is exactly what they have done. You can call "dot" and it runs the dot layout engine, but you can also run "neato", "sfdp" or any other -- with the same input.

The "graphviz" package installs all these executables.


At least Imagemagick came to their senses and renamed their command to magick (with convert still aliased for BC).



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