Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: consistent Gentoo tool names

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 05:46, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:30:37PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> "this wrapper will print a warning, sleep 5 seconds, then run
> the tool from its new location."
>
> Of course, it won't do that if the tools aren't invoked with
> an active TTY. Otherwise, scripts using the tool would break,
> (say wrt piping/redirection).
>
> Furthermore, the wrapper must preserve the return status of
> the wrapped tool.
>
> But I guess all of this is just too obvious to mentioned
> explicity in the GLEP itself;)

That's for the coming sample implementation section.

Thanks for the comments though.

-- 
Donnie Berkholz
Gentoo Linux