Re: TradeMarked Name --redhat-config-

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jared Smith wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 11:22, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > YUP was the Yellowdog UPdater.
> > so maybe yum should be yupm but considering it shares maybe 2 functions
> > with yup it doesn't seem all that important.
> > To be completely honest, yum was selected as a name b/c it was:
> >   1. short
> >   2. not already taken
> >
>
> Hmmmn... I just had a thought... why not rename it to "rum", as in
> Redhat Updater, iMproved!  (OK, this borders on trolling, so I'll stop.)
>
> Jared

While yum is a short and nice name, renaming it to something like
system-package-* (or making a symlink?)  helps so that the new
user/admin simply types syste-TAB and finds what he's looking
for.