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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: consistent Gentoo tool names
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:42:23
Message-Id: 200403190240.03409.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: consistent Gentoo tool names by Donnie Berkholz
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4 On Friday 19 March 2004 02:21, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 > On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 03:42, Marius Mauch wrote:
6 > > My opinion: I'm for a common prefix, but I don't like the gentoo- part.
7
8 Seconded.
9
10 > Given that many of Gentoo's tools start with e* already, perhaps
11 > econfig-* and eupdate-* would be a better idea. This keeps the shorter
12 > length while still being very obviously a Gentoo tool.
13
14 Also seconded.
15
16 > The downside is that "e<tab><tab>" still gets you a huge list of bins,
17 > while "gentoo-<tab<tab>" gets you _only_ the tools. You need to type
18 > "econfig-" and "eupdate-" on different terms at the same time to get the
19 > ease of searchability the gentoo- prefix gives.
20 >
21 > Comments?
22
23 eco<tab><tab> gave me nothing
24 eup<tab><tab> gave me eupdatedb
25 gent<tab><tab> gave me nothing (gen gave completely unrelated commands)
26
27 So if we count it up:
28 gent<tab>u<tab> at 7 keys and 13 chars
29 eup<tab> at 4 keys and 7 chars
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31 And for some noise, this idea seems more aesthetically appealing to me. :)
32
33 Regards,
34 Jason Stubbs
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: consistent Gentoo tool names Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>