From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13030 invoked by uid 1002); 18 Nov 2003 02:15:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26703 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2003 02:15:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3FB98016.1090008@technaut.darktalker.net> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:12:38 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031117 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gentoo-Dev List References: <1068974673.361.2.camel@localhost> <1069111122.1807.15.camel@rattus.localdomain> <20031118011111.40f0441e.pYrania@gentoo.org> <200311180026.19577.Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <20031118011305.GA23900@unm.edu> <1069119114.6811.39.camel@cbbcsc204a.murdoch.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <1069119114.6811.39.camel@cbbcsc204a.murdoch.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? X-Archives-Salt: fbef5882-cfe3-406b-8c8d-c58f2d6aab40 X-Archives-Hash: c3ef99cab1bec314b53b595c189b7106 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > The reason for using "g-" was so typing "g-" 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'. -- Andrew Gaffney -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list