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.
Its amazing the new things I find out everyday about Gentoo. The other day I wrote an ebuild for the perl module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and submitted it on bugs.gentoo.org when all I needed to do was 'g-cpan.pl Spreadsheet::WriteExcel'.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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