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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] consistent Gentoo tool names
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:10:03
Message-Id: 1079467798.18935.27.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] consistent Gentoo tool names by Christian Gut
1 On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 15:04, Christian Gut wrote:
2 > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 >
4 > > Finally, I was pondering a gentoo-* prefix on all of these, to ensure an
5 > > even more consistent and easily findable set of tools. That way,
6 > > `gentoo-<tab><tab>` would find every Gentoo tool.
7 >
8 > while reading your mail, thats exactly what came to my mind. Perhaps
9 > gen- prefix to make it shorter?
10
11 Why? It just adds confusion for the sake of three letters.
12
13 > This would additionally prevents confusion if any upstream tool names
14 > config-*.
15 >
16 > I think if you make a "gentoo standard" make it right and prevent any
17 > confusion.
18
19 Hopefully all Gentoo standards are made like this. =)
20
21 Donnie
22 --
23 Donnie Berkholz
24 Gentoo Linux

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