On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:48, Herbert Xu wrote: > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, the `fu' in kung-fu means something like style or technique, so > > apt-fu sort of makes sense if you think of as a tool for doing cool > > things using the power of apt... :-) > > I'm afraid that although the character `fu' has many meanings, but > style or technique isn't one of them.
OK, agreed. After reading the apt-fu(1) completely I found the explanation from the author. Under the "NOMENCLATURE" section it reads: ... Initially, this project started out with the name 'apttoo', obviously influenced by the name of well-known source-distribution for Linux. Then it was renamed to 'aptor', but I didn't like that name, either. Finally, I settled on 'apt-fu', giving naysayers a chance to call it, 'apt-futility' or apt-<4letterword>. APT-Fu is the name of this project, but command-line applications are usually written entirely in lowercase for easy of typing, so 'apt-fu' is the name of the executable script. optFiles is short for ``options files''. ... In fact I was pleased to find that performings of apt-fu and opt files are very well documented in man pages, README and examples/ ... Really doesn't look like a fast hack (which I was suspecting for a while) -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <keyserver.bu.edu> 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB
