On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the name "urpmi" does sound stupid, like somebody belching. why do > linux programmers give their software such silly names? guess they > dont have sales or packaging departments
Because it's fewer keystrokes! :) GNOME 2.0 went and renamed all their tools with more sane names, and so did the new Red Hat 8 configuration tools. gcalc => gnome-calculator gfontsel => gnome-font-viewer redhat-config-samba redhat-config-httpd So there is still hope! -- Steve Fox http://k-lug.org
