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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 08:50:27
Message-Id: CAATnKFBmgjDPrZOOHEB0oFWF42=zk4U37ddfJUQri2B3Uvh36A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet by Christopher Head
1 On 5 August 2013 17:33, Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca> wrote:
2 > Probably not a big deal, but there is a “~/.netrc” file which holds
3 > usernames and password for various services (some FTP clients use it,
4 > maybe others).
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7 If you want a suggestion that imbues all the things we want to imbue,
8 and isn't a recognised name already, I suggest "opennetrc".
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10 Sure, its a bit of a mouthful, but a quick search only reveals people
11 trying to "open the netrc file", which is not really a namespace
12 collision.
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14 And although it conveys the heritage of openrc, it doesn't bind itself
15 to being dependent on openrc.
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18 Kent