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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next prev parent 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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