The reason for using "g-" was so typing "g-<tab>" will get ALL gentoo utilities. Otherwise the advantage of being consistent and hierarchal is largely lost (you do need a (hopefully) short "top of tree" identifier for the hierarchy). You will also need to allow for other configuration tools such as g-cpan.pl which is a gentoo utility, but is really perl module installer similar to emerge.
Another example is the gentoolkit utilities like revdep-rebuild - there's lots of messages telling people that this tool is available, but no other way to tell its there if you are in the middle of a disaster and trying to figure out what to do. Lastly, when I was using mandrake, they were prefixing all their utilities with "drak" which made finding the tools *SO* easy. This is not about copying what they do, but being smarter about what we do. BillK On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:13, Jason Mobarak wrote: > Hi -- > > I vote config-* and update-* -- the other names seem a little convoluted if the > intent is to make a clear and concise tool naming scheme. > > -- Jason A Mobarak (aka Aether on Freenode) > > On 00:26 Tue 18 Nov , Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 00:11, Markus Nigbur wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:18:42 +0800 > > > > > > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I dont see a problem with branding in this case (other than > > > > gentoo-* sounding a bit ... odd!) > > > > > > > > how many other tools such as g-cpan.pl exist that few know about: > > > > is there a consolidated list of these tools and what they do? If > > > > not, some kind of consistent, hierarchal naming scheme will be a > > > > godsend! > > > > > > > > So I am suggesting > > > > g-update-etc, g-update-opengl > > > > g-install-cpan, g-install-cran > > > > g-config-distcc, g-config-java > > > > and so on > > > > > > > > BillK > > > > > > Well, the whole idea is good, but those names are really considerable > > > stupid-looking :( > > > But apparently i can't think of anything better. > > > > > > -- Markus > > > > I think the first idea was the best: config-* > > > > Peter > > -- > > ====================================================================== > > Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, > > 2.4.23_pre8-gss) > > i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ > > ====================================================================== > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
