Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Official way to do rolling update (Was: Re: Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec)

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:26:32 +0100
yac <yac@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 09:51:32 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I have a whole set of short, often 2-4 letter aliases/scripts
> > that take care of the various options
>
> Sooo, basicly you have defined buttload of aliases, somehow managed to
> remember these nonsensical names and actually did not save any
> keystrokes, because most linux users heard of tab completion and use
> it succesfuly to complete commands and their arguments. Cool story
> bro.

Cool story guys.

Just like how MSOffice 2007 had tons of shortcuts to remember whereas
they got rid of that in MSOffice 2010 by intuitive context relevant
shortcuts; yet, people had memorized the shortcuts and are much quicker
than having to learn all the positions in the new intuitive Ribbon bar.
I didn't learn those shortcuts; so, I am quick with the Ribbon bar...

Or why do

    ebuild name-1.ebuild clean manifest unpack
    ebuild name-2.ebuild clean manifest unpack
    diff -urN /var/tmp/portage/name-{1,2}/workdir/*
    # ^ Actually, you would need to source S="..." twice.

which requires a ton of tabs when I can just do `ediff 1 2`? I can
memorize it, but perhaps others need more short commands and can't.

You'll find out that people end up using both approaches; so, please
let's not get into detailed opinions, it is just a matter of choice.

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Gentoo Developer

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