On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 01:51 +0300, Slava Zanko wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folk, > > I want to propose new idea about names of command line utilites... > > For example, all present utilites have sence just for guru's (ls, rm, > fsck etc), but for novies it's hard to use. Is good idea to symlink'ing > (shell aliasing) these and much more utilz to another names? Like to: > > ls -> filesystem.list > rm -> filesystem.remove > fsck.* -> filesystem.check.* > mkfs.* -> filesystem.make.* > convert -> media.convert.image > mencoder -> media.convert.video > oggenc -> media.convert.audio.ogg > mplayer -> media.player.* > > etc > > This idea will be easy to realize (need to make at first time one rpm > package with lot of symlinks... and then long-time work in all present > rpm-packages for respect this technology). But we need for > standartization of alias names... in ideal case, standartization must > touch all distros (new standard?) > > P.S. This not my idea. Originally from: > http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux.org.ru%2Fforum%2Ftalks%2F4797323&sl=ru&tl=en > > Thanks for attention. This is something you don't need anyone's permission to implement. You can simply implement it as a bunch of aliases defined in a file in /etc/profile.d - see /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh for an example - and then make a package with your file in it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
