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From: Markus Nigbur <pYrania@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:17:40
Message-Id: 20031117221731.52aa3654.pYrania@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? by Jason Stubbs
1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:32:39 +0900
2 Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 00:09, Markus Nigbur wrote:
5 > > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:18:09 -0500 (EST)
6 > >
7 > > "donnie berkholz" <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
8 > > > I had imagined renaming anything that was *-update to config-*
9 > > > also for consistency.
10 > >
11 > > Ehrm, IMHO *-update should be scripts that don't need any user
12 > > interaction, like env-update or opengl-update (and yes, etc-update
13 > > is an exception; even so it should really be called etc-config. ;)
14 >
15 > Umm, in a sense opengl-update does need interaction - even if it's
16 > only passing command line parameters to the proggy.
17
18 That's what i mean. User interaction is more than just specifiying some
19 commandline options. Those could also be specified by a default file,
20 a script calling the *-update script or simply default values.
21 User interaction starts when the user actively has to do some stuff when
22 running the script (as with etc-update).
23
24 -- Markus
25
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27 Markus Nigbur
28 Gentoo Developer
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