Re: [gentoo-dev] consistent Gentoo tool names

[Jason Cooper]

Donnie Berkholz (spyderous@g.o) scribbled:
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:51, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:34:57AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > Granted it's ad hoc, but it's not official to my knowledge.
> >
> > Official or not, we should try to *not* confuse our users. A quick search on
> > my own system find the following *-config:
>
> OK, current names of tools I think should be config-*:
>
> x11-base/opengl-update -> config-opengl
> distcc-config -> config-distcc
> config-kernel
> app-admin/zope-config -> config-zope
> app-sci/blas-config -> config-blas
> dev-java/java-config -> config-java
> dev-ruby/ruby-config -> config-ruby
> net-www/webapp-config -> config-webapp
> sys-devel/cc-config -> config-cc
> sys-devel/gcc-config -> config-gcc
>
> While I'm at it, any *-update{,r} scripts that aren't related to
> configuration can be renamed to update-*:
>
> modules-update -> update-modules
> env-update -> update-env
> python-updater -> update-python
> etc-update -> update-etc

Don't forget

rc-update -> update-rc

or

gen-update-rc ? :)

>
> I realize the update-env and update-etc are fairly major changes, but I
> feel a more consistent way to find Gentoo config and update tools is
> needed.
>
> Finally, I was pondering a gentoo-* prefix on all of these, to ensure an
> even more consistent and easily findable set of tools. That way,
> `gentoo-<tab><tab>` would find every Gentoo tool.

users like <tab><tab> <grin>

And maybe a warning wrapper for a month or two, eg:

##############
#!/bin/sh
# rc-update wrapper

echo "WARNING... 'rc-update' depreciated, use 'gen-update-rc' instead."
echo "See 'man <umpty-scrunch>' for new gentoo tools naming standards."

# some call to gen-update-rc with all command line args.
##############

Or put a test in the scripts and do a symlink...

Just my 2c

Cooper.


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