Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:32:02
Message-Id: 52AAFE33.8060206@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC by Alexander Berntsen
1 On 12/12/13 17:46, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
2 > On 11/12/13 21:41, William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be
4 > > unique.
5 > orc is shorter and more punny (nice excuse for designing an orcish cow
6 > mascot).
7 >
8
9 orc is dev-lang/orc, with binaries like orc-bugreport
10
11 > On 11/12/13 22:04, William Hubbs wrote:> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at
12 > 10:47:49PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
13 > >> are you going to rename also rc-service and rc-update?
14 >
15 > > No, there isn't a need for that, just "rc".
16 > Please rename all of them, to provide uniform naming. This way, typing
17 > orc, and tab-tabing in BASH will give you a list of orc-related
18 > executables, just like with rc now.
19 >
20
21 as said, with tab completion, orc-* would just get mixed up with
22 binaries from dev-lang/orc

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net>