From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:59:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP43QmB3pBZM_GCXLyVL_Bs7xp_Vm14CodGrJHCUGA7sT7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A9DA57.6070700@plaimi.net>
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Alexander Berntsen
<alexander@plaimi.net> wrote:
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> On 11/12/13 21:41, William Hubbs wrote:
>> My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be
>> unique.
> orc is shorter and more punny (nice excuse for designing an orcish cow
> mascot).
>
> On 11/12/13 22:04, William Hubbs wrote:> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at
> 10:47:49PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>>> are you going to rename also rc-service and rc-update?
>>
>> No, there isn't a need for that, just "rc".
> Please rename all of them, to provide uniform naming. This way, typing
> orc, and tab-tabing in BASH will give you a list of orc-related
> executables, just like with rc now.
>
That makes no sense; there is almost no reason to manually invoke the
"rc" binary currently, an Gentoo users are already familiar with names
like "rc-update" and "service".
Renaming everything just forces users to learn new command names for no reason.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-13 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-11 20:41 [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC William Hubbs
2013-12-11 20:47 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2013-12-11 21:04 ` William Hubbs
2013-12-11 20:47 ` Chris Reffett
2013-12-11 20:53 ` Markos Chandras
2013-12-11 21:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-12-11 22:46 ` William Hubbs
2013-12-11 20:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Paul Tagliamonte
2013-12-11 21:09 ` Markos Chandras
2013-12-11 21:14 ` Paul Tagliamonte
2013-12-11 22:50 ` William Hubbs
2013-12-11 21:28 ` Rich Freeman
2013-12-12 0:41 ` Patrick Lauer
2013-12-12 8:26 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2013-12-12 12:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2013-12-12 0:37 ` Patrick Lauer
2013-12-12 1:38 ` Doug Goldstein
2013-12-12 7:41 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-12-12 15:15 ` William Hubbs
2013-12-12 15:46 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-12-13 12:31 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-12-13 13:31 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-12-13 15:59 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2013-12-13 17:23 ` William Hubbs
2013-12-13 19:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-12-13 22:03 ` William Hubbs
2013-12-14 12:47 ` Duncan
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