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Not bad. Last time I used apropos was some years ago on on a solaris |
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system - I dont think its well used these days. But if it can be |
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highlighted in the docs enough, it will certainly help. |
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I would look at it as a separate issue to implementing hierarchal |
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naming. Downside would be ensuring all utilities have this keyword and |
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spreading the word. |
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BillK |
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On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 01:49, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:31:54AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > The reason for using "g-" was so typing "g-<tab>" will get ALL gentoo |
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> > utilities. Otherwise the advantage of being consistent and hierarchal |
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> > is largely lost (you do need a (hopefully) short "top of tree" |
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> > identifier for the hierarchy). You will also need to allow for other |
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> > configuration tools such as g-cpan.pl which is a gentoo utility, but is |
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> > really perl module installer similar to emerge. |
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> Try this: |
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> emerge sync |
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> emerge gentoolkit |
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> makewhatis |
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> apropos gentoo |
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> I'll see if we can't add the Gentoo keyword to all our other tools' |
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> man page descriptions as well. |
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> Naturally, I think unifying the nomenclature is a good thing, but I'm |
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> not entirely certain I want long names for my tools. I find apropos |
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> to be a better solution for that. |
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> Kind regards, |
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> Karl T |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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