Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?

[Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

The reason for using "g-" was so typing "g-<tab>" will get ALL gentoo
utilities.  Otherwise the advantage of being consistent and hierarchal
is largely lost (you do need a (hopefully) short "top of tree"
identifier for the hierarchy).  You will also need to allow for other
configuration tools such as g-cpan.pl which is a gentoo utility, but is
really  perl module installer similar to emerge.

Another example is the gentoolkit utilities like revdep-rebuild -
there's lots of messages telling people that this tool is available, but
no other way to tell its there if you are in the middle of a disaster
and trying to figure out what to do.

Lastly, when I was using mandrake, they were prefixing all their
utilities with "drak" which made finding the tools *SO* easy.  This is
not about copying what they do, but being smarter about what we do.

BillK

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:13, Jason Mobarak wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> I vote config-* and update-* -- the other names seem a little convoluted if the
> intent is to make a clear and concise tool naming scheme.
> 
> -- Jason A Mobarak (aka Aether on Freenode)
> 
> On 00:26 Tue 18 Nov     , Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 00:11, Markus Nigbur wrote:
> > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:18:42 +0800
> > >
> > > William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > > > I dont see a problem with branding in this case (other than
> > > > gentoo-* sounding a bit ... odd!)
> > > >
> > > > how many other tools such as g-cpan.pl exist that few know about:
> > > > is there a consolidated list of these tools and what they do? If
> > > > not, some kind of consistent, hierarchal naming scheme will be a
> > > > godsend!
> > > >
> > > > So I am suggesting
> > > > g-update-etc, g-update-opengl
> > > > g-install-cpan, g-install-cran
> > > > g-config-distcc, g-config-java
> > > > and so on
> > > >
> > > > BillK
> > >
> > > Well, the whole idea is good, but those names are really considerable
> > > stupid-looking :(
> > > But apparently i can't think of anything better.
> > >
> > > -- Markus
> > 
> > I think the first idea was the best: config-*
> > 
> > Peter
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