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From: Markus Nigbur <pYrania@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:00:53
Message-Id: 20031116120035.156e3451.pYrania@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:13:02 -0800
2 "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:24:35AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 > > I just had an idea (how rare, eh?) and I wanted to see what other
6 > > people thought of it.
7 > >
8 > > What if we renamed all the *-config tools to config-* (gcc-config,
9 > > distcc-config, java-config, etc. would move to config-gcc,
10 > > config-distcc, config-java, etc.)?
11 > >
12 > > This would allow people trying to configure anything to simply type
13 > > config-<tab> and get a listing of what was available.
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 sounds nice. at least some easier structure in a system with no global
21 configuration tool.
22
23 +1
24
25 --
26 Markus Nigbur
27 Gentoo Developer
28 http://www.gentoo.org