Re: [gentoo-dev] app-arch ambiguous?

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:28:01 -0800 Anthony Gorecki
<agorecki@ectrolinux.com> wrote:
| On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:17 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > Have you any idea just how frickin' hard that would be?
| 
| Unfortunately. A few simple scripts could be made to shorten the
| required  amount of manual conversions; at the least, it would be
| nothing like  segregating the KDE ebuilds again. If all else fails,
| I'm certain that we  could enslave ferringb and assign him to the
| task.

We have the script. The script isn't the problem.

| > The names are 
| > nice, clear, concise and obvious to people who have to work with
| > them on a regular basis.
| 
| "NGSCB" is perfectly clear to many Microsoft employees and those with
| an  obfuscation shredder-- it may not be so clear to end users, news
| reporters  and potential critics. Likewise, having a category named as
| a single letter,  for example, might be perfectly clear to the
| developers and developer  community members, but it would be obscure
| to everyone else.

That's ok, everyone else is using the newly committed long descriptions
that were made for that purpose.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
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