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There has been a discussion on this in the past and I think it was |
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generally agreed that *-config sucks (at least by me!) Even Mandrake |
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does this right by a common naming scheme ("drak...") |
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How do you find gcc-config, java-config, distcc.config, ...-config |
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unless already know they exist? e.g., until this email I had no idea |
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that "imlib2-config and xml2-config" also exist! |
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BillK |
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On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 23:18, Peter Johanson wrote: |
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> > [...] |
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> > Please consider calling it kernel-config instead of config-kernel, this to be |
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> > coherent with the dozens *-config's that already exist (such as gcc-config, |
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> > java-config, imlib2-config, xml2-config, ...). |
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> This was actually the original name, but after a talk with spyderous, he |
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> mentioned the "config-<TAB><TAB>" advantage to this naming scheme. I don't |
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> really care *what* it gets called, but what spyderous says makes sense, |
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> so i figured i'd do that. |
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