On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) <forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 20.04.2010 03:29, Ryan Rix пишет: >> On Mon 19 April 2010 3:51:23 pm Slava Zanko wrote: >> >>> 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=e >>> n >>> >>> Thanks for attention. >>> >> I'm against making a mess of PATH with a crapload of symlinks. >> If this were to happen, it should happen at a bashrc alias level, and even >> then I'm still against it. >> > I also against making it global by default. But this can be done in > separate folder, not to standard /usr/bin, and then added for users who > want it just add it into PATH. > I not sure what I want it, but sometimes really hard understand by name > what do command and from which area it is. That is what man command is for ... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
