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From: Gregorio Guidi <g.guidi@sns.it>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:17:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311171517.45977.g.guidi@sns.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1879.141.166.213.9.1069042689.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu>

On Monday 17 November 2003 05:18, donnie berkholz wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> I had imagined renaming anything that was *-update to config-* also for
> consistency.
>
RedHat had a good thought when renamed all his config tools to 
redhat-config-<tool>.
I'm thinking at an admin that comes from another distro and occasionally sits 
in front of a gentoo box, he could type gentoo-<tab> and get an idea of 
distro-specific tools.

Bye.
Gregorio Guidi

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 14:17 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
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 [this message]
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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