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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 14:41, Jason Rhinelander wrote: |
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> Just thought I'd pipe in here to mention that I've written a wrapper (in |
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> bash) which seems to solve the problems in this thread, and more. |
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Like I was just saying to you, most Gentoo tools are either already |
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implemented in Python or will be moved to it, so it might be a good |
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idea. |
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> This approach seems more elegant than renaming all the tools, and it |
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> means users have a _single_ location to look for update/configuration |
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> scripts. It still allows tab completion, as you can do: |
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> eup<tab><tab><tab> (once to complete "eupdate", then twice for the list |
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> of tools) and have a complete list of all available utilities, and |
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> doesn't depend on file naming to group utilities together. |
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Speaking of single location, Daniel just suggested putting them all in |
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/usr/gentoo/bin as well. We could either symlink into /usr/bin or |
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provide an env.d file. |
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> Additionally, I think beginning linux users aren't, at least initially, |
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> used to tab completion, and being able to run: |
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> some_command --details |
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> to get a list of all supported utilities *including what they do*, is |
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> extremely useful. Running gconfig-<tab><tab> to get a list of utilities |
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> is useful, but I don't have any idea what "gconfig-cc" or "gconfig-gcc" |
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> or "gupdate-python" _does_. This script gives you that capability. |
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Yeah, it's easier than running `utility --help` for each utility and |
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would be a nice addition. |
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However, the two are not incompatible. Why hold back one improvement |
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because another one is also possible? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Gentoo Linux |
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