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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>, Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming?
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:00:39
Message-Id: 20031116101302.GB30619@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:24:35AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > I just had an idea (how rare, eh?) and I wanted to see what other people
3 > thought of it.
4 >
5 > What if we renamed all the *-config tools to config-* (gcc-config,
6 > distcc-config, java-config, etc. would move to config-gcc,
7 > config-distcc, config-java, etc.)?
8 >
9 > This would allow people trying to configure anything to simply type
10 > config-<tab> and get a listing of what was available.
11 +1 here.
12
13 For the moment, add a symlink with the config-* name, and over time,
14 lets go to putting the packages as being named config-* with an extra
15 symlink as *-config until we are sure they are all gone.
16
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? Markus Nigbur <pYrania@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] *-config tool renaming? Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>