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From: Jason Rhinelander <jason@××××××××××××××××.com>
To: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 03:11:44
Message-Id: 3FB83C69.9080805@gossamer-threads.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? by Donnie Berkholz
1 It seems to me that consistency would demand the same thing for
2 *-update. I've been in a situation where I've needed to run
3 SOMETHING-update before, but couldn't remember what "SOMETHING" was.
4 Being able to tab complete update-<tab> would be great!
5
6 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
7 > I just had an idea (how rare, eh?) and I wanted to see what other people
8 > thought of it.
9 >
10 > What if we renamed all the *-config tools to config-* (gcc-config,
11 > distcc-config, java-config, etc. would move to config-gcc,
12 > config-distcc, config-java, etc.)?
13 >
14 > This would allow people trying to configure anything to simply type
15 > config-<tab> and get a listing of what was available.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? donnie berkholz <spyderous@g.o>