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From: Markus Nigbur <pYrania@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:00:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031116120035.156e3451.pYrania@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031116101302.GB30619@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>

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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:13:02 -0800
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:24:35AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > I just had an idea (how rare, eh?) and I wanted to see what other
> > people thought of it.
> > 
> > What if we renamed all the *-config tools to config-* (gcc-config,
> > distcc-config, java-config, etc. would move to config-gcc,
> > config-distcc, config-java, etc.)?
> > 
> > This would allow people trying to configure anything to simply type
> > config-<tab> and get a listing of what was available.
> +1 here.
> 
> For the moment, add a symlink with the config-* name, and over time,
> lets go to putting the packages as being named config-* with an extra
> symlink as *-config until we are sure they are all gone.

sounds nice. at least some easier structure in a system with no global
configuration tool.

+1

-- 
Markus Nigbur
Gentoo Developer
http://www.gentoo.org

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-16 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-16  9:24 [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? Donnie Berkholz
2003-11-16 10:13 ` Robin H. Johnson
2003-11-16 11:00   ` Markus Nigbur [this message]
2003-11-17 14:45   ` Luca Barbato
2003-11-17 23:18     ` William Kenworthy
2003-11-17 23:22       ` Ricardo Loureiro
2003-11-18  0:11       ` Markus Nigbur
2003-11-18  0:26         ` Peter Ruskin
2003-11-18  1:13           ` Jason Mobarak
2003-11-18  1:31             ` Bill Kenworthy
2003-11-18  2:12               ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-11-18 16:10               ` Jason Mobarak
2003-11-18 17:15                 ` Donnie Berkholz
2003-11-18 17:49               ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2003-11-19  0:24                 ` William Kenworthy
2003-11-19  3:38                 ` Aron Griffis
2003-11-16 16:08 ` Brian Jackson
2003-11-16 18:04   ` George Shapovalov
2003-11-17  3:11 ` Jason Rhinelander
2003-11-17  4:18   ` donnie berkholz
2003-11-17 14:17     ` Gregorio Guidi
2003-11-17 15:09     ` Markus Nigbur
2003-11-17 15:32       ` Jason Stubbs
2003-11-17 21:17         ` Markus Nigbur
2003-11-17 18:24       ` Donnie Berkholz

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