On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:19:02 -0400 purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
| 040826 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > it'll pick up certain mistakes and make them really stand out:
| >   http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/gentoo-syntax.png
| > Suggestions, patches, etc welcomed.
| 
| very pretty'n'all & mb this is a complaint re Portage,
| but 'licence' is not a mistake: it is the way non-Americans spell
| 'license'. in fact, the English distinguish 'licence' (noun) from
| 'license' (verb). Canadians follow English usage when they think about
| it& American when they don't ... (smile)

Well that's the point. I speak Real English (TM), so I keep on screwing
up the LICENSE variable by spelling it correctly. In the context of an
ebuild, using the non-USian spelling *is* a mistake.

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