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From: Jason Short <jshort@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RE: consistent Gentoo tool names
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:22:36
Message-Id: 1079468281.8075.182791918@webmail.messagingengine.com
1 On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:00:01 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:51, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
4 >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:34:57AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 >> > Granted it's ad hoc, but it's not official to my knowledge.
6 >>
7 >> Official or not, we should try to *not* confuse our users. A quick search on
8 >> my own system find the following *-config:
9 >
10 > OK, current names of tools I think should be config-*:
11 >
12 > x11-base/opengl-update -> config-opengl
13 > distcc-config -> config-distcc
14 > config-kernel
15 > app-admin/zope-config -> config-zope
16 > app-sci/blas-config -> config-blas
17 > dev-java/java-config -> config-java
18 > dev-ruby/ruby-config -> config-ruby
19 > net-www/webapp-config -> config-webapp
20 > sys-devel/cc-config -> config-cc
21 > sys-devel/gcc-config -> config-gcc
22 >
23 > While I'm at it, any *-update{,r} scripts that aren't related to
24 > configuration can be renamed to update-*:
25 >
26 > modules-update -> update-modules
27 > env-update -> update-env
28 > python-updater -> update-python
29 > etc-update -> update-etc
30
31 $ apropos gentoo
32 dep-clean (1) - Gentoo: Shows unrequired packages and missing
33 dependencies
34 ebuilder (1) - a package builder for Gentoo Linux
35 equery (1) - Gentoo: Package Query Tool
36 etcat (1) - Gentoo: Portage Information Extractor
37 euse (1) - Gentoo: command line USE flag editor
38 ewhich (1) - Gentoo: program for resolving ebuild names
39 java-config (1) - The Java configuration tool for Gentoo
40 mkebuild (1) - Gentoo: Interactive ebuild generator
41 pkg-clean (1) - Gentoo: Clean obsolete packages
42 pkg-size (1) - Gentoo: Package size calculator
43 portage (5) - the heart of Gentoo
44 qpkg (1) - Gentoo: query package tool
45 repoman (1) - Gentoo's program to enforce a minimal level
46 of quality assurance in packages added to the portage tree
47 revdep-rebuild (1) - Gentoo: Reverse dependency rebuilder
48 ufed (8) - Gentoo Linux USE flags editor
49
50 what's wrong with whatis?
51
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RE: consistent Gentoo tool names Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>