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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>
To: Gentoo-Dev List <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:12:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FB98016.1090008@technaut.darktalker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069119114.6811.39.camel@cbbcsc204a.murdoch.edu.au>

Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> 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.

Its amazing the new things I find out everyday about Gentoo. The other day I wrote an 
ebuild for the perl module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and submitted it on bugs.gentoo.org 
when all I needed to do was 'g-cpan.pl Spreadsheet::WriteExcel'.

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Andrew Gaffney


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-18  2:15 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 [this message]
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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