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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:47:58
Message-Id: 3FB8DEED.2060202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:24:35AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 >
4 >>I just had an idea (how rare, eh?) and I wanted to see what other people
5 >>thought of it.
6 >>
7 >>What if we renamed all the *-config tools to config-* (gcc-config,
8 >>distcc-config, java-config, etc. would move to config-gcc,
9 >>config-distcc, config-java, etc.)?
10 >>
11 >>This would allow people trying to configure anything to simply type
12 >>config-<tab> and get a listing of what was available.
13 >
14 > +1 here.
15 >
16 > For the moment, add a symlink with the config-* name, and over time,
17 > lets go to putting the packages as being named config-* with an extra
18 > symlink as *-config until we are sure they are all gone.
19 >
20 +1 too
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22 I'd like to keep the symlink for compatibility if they don't clash with
23 the path-config tools.
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25 I'd prefer to avoid branding anyway (please NO gentoo-config-*).
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28 Luca Barbato
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Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>