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

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

Robin H. Johnson 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.
> 
+1 too

I'd like to keep the symlink for compatibility if they don't clash with 
the path-config tools.

I'd prefer to avoid branding anyway (please NO gentoo-config-*).

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Luca Barbato
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