trash-cli : Looking for a reviewer

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sun Oct 5 21:38:10 UTC 2008


Andrea Francia wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Jean-François Martin wrote:
>>  
>>> Le dimanche 05 octobre 2008 à 01:36 +0200, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
>>>    
>>>> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:10:06AM +0200, Jean-François Martin wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Patrice Dumas had already done a partial review but don't want to
>>>>> accept
>>>>> the package because he think that executables are too generic (trash,
>>>>> empty-trash, list-trash, restore-trash).
>>>>>         
>>>> There is only trash that I find too generic...
>>>>       
>>> If this command is really a problem can't we rename it "to-trash" for
>>> example and add a file in doc, README.fedora that tell that for
>>> packaging policy, we decide to change this command?
>>>     
>>
>> If renaming, please consider renaming them all to trash-* from the
>> current
>> *-trash.
>>   
> What are the advantages of doing this?

Eh, thought it's obvious.  One can type "trash" then use tab completion to see
what commands are available.  For example when I install a package, say
bittorrent, I naturally try "bittorrent<TAB><TAB>" before having to fall back
to "rpm -ql bittorrent".  It's simple namespacing too.

behdad




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