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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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Another example is the gentoolkit utilities like revdep-rebuild - |
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there's lots of messages telling people that this tool is available, but |
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no other way to tell its there if you are in the middle of a disaster |
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and trying to figure out what to do. |
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Lastly, when I was using mandrake, they were prefixing all their |
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utilities with "drak" which made finding the tools *SO* easy. This is |
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not about copying what they do, but being smarter about what we do. |
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BillK |
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On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:13, Jason Mobarak wrote: |
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> Hi -- |
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> I vote config-* and update-* -- the other names seem a little convoluted if the |
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> intent is to make a clear and concise tool naming scheme. |
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> -- Jason A Mobarak (aka Aether on Freenode) |
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> On 00:26 Tue 18 Nov , Peter Ruskin wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 00:11, Markus Nigbur wrote: |
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> > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:18:42 +0800 |
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> > > |
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> > > William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> > > > I dont see a problem with branding in this case (other than |
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> > > > gentoo-* sounding a bit ... odd!) |
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> > > > |
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> > > > how many other tools such as g-cpan.pl exist that few know about: |
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> > > > is there a consolidated list of these tools and what they do? If |
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> > > > not, some kind of consistent, hierarchal naming scheme will be a |
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> > > > godsend! |
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> > > > |
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> > > > So I am suggesting |
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> > > > g-update-etc, g-update-opengl |
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> > > > g-install-cpan, g-install-cran |
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> > > > g-config-distcc, g-config-java |
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> > > > and so on |
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> > > > |
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> > > > BillK |
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> > > |
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> > > Well, the whole idea is good, but those names are really considerable |
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> > > stupid-looking :( |
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> > > But apparently i can't think of anything better. |
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> > > |
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> > > -- Markus |
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> > |
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> > I think the first idea was the best: config-* |
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> > |
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> > Peter |
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> > -- |
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> > Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, |
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> > 2.4.23_pre8-gss) |
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> > i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ |
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