On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Alexander Berntsen <alexan...@plaimi.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 11/12/13 21:41, William Hubbs wrote: >> My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be >> unique. > orc is shorter and more punny (nice excuse for designing an orcish cow > mascot). > > On 11/12/13 22:04, William Hubbs wrote:> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at > 10:47:49PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >>> are you going to rename also rc-service and rc-update? >> >> No, there isn't a need for that, just "rc". > Please rename all of them, to provide uniform naming. This way, typing > orc, and tab-tabing in BASH will give you a list of orc-related > executables, just like with rc now. >
That makes no sense; there is almost no reason to manually invoke the "rc" binary currently, an Gentoo users are already familiar with names like "rc-update" and "service". Renaming everything just forces users to learn new command names for no reason.
