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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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Its amazing the new things I find out everyday about Gentoo. The other day I wrote an |
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ebuild for the perl module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and submitted it on bugs.gentoo.org |
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when all I needed to do was 'g-cpan.pl Spreadsheet::WriteExcel'. |
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