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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:59:49
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43QmB3pBZM_GCXLyVL_Bs7xp_Vm14CodGrJHCUGA7sT7Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC by Alexander Berntsen
1 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Alexander Berntsen
2 <alexander@××××××.net> wrote:
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6 > On 11/12/13 21:41, William Hubbs wrote:
7 >> My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be
8 >> unique.
9 > orc is shorter and more punny (nice excuse for designing an orcish cow
10 > mascot).
11 >
12 > On 11/12/13 22:04, William Hubbs wrote:> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at
13 > 10:47:49PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
14 >>> are you going to rename also rc-service and rc-update?
15 >>
16 >> No, there isn't a need for that, just "rc".
17 > Please rename all of them, to provide uniform naming. This way, typing
18 > orc, and tab-tabing in BASH will give you a list of orc-related
19 > executables, just like with rc now.
20 >
21
22 That makes no sense; there is almost no reason to manually invoke the
23 "rc" binary currently, an Gentoo users are already familiar with names
24 like "rc-update" and "service".
25
26 Renaming everything just forces users to learn new command names for no reason.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>