From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2N1hkRw023551 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:43:47 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DDuuQ-0008P7-4x for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:43:46 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDuti-0007PS-Ff for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:43:02 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:42:56 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-arch ambiguous? Message-ID: <20050323014256.0f99ffdd@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <200503221728.03918.agorecki@ectrolinux.com> References: <46059ce10503221316492b0dfc@mail.gmail.com> <200503221707.59066.agorecki@ectrolinux.com> <20050323011744.514ca341@snowdrop> <200503221728.03918.agorecki@ectrolinux.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Wed__23_Mar_2005_01_42_56_+0000_zonAGU8BeHzm8.Ip; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: 2a458060-d70b-4e8d-bbaf-0175d3ccbcbe X-Archives-Hash: 295820de6e36af260c03e0386f5fa5fc --Signature_Wed__23_Mar_2005_01_42_56_+0000_zonAGU8BeHzm8.Ip Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:28:01 -0800 Anthony Gorecki wrote: | On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:17 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Have you any idea just how frickin' hard that would be? |=20 | 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=20 | > nice, clear, concise and obvious to people who have to work with | > them on a regular basis. |=20 | "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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Wed__23_Mar_2005_01_42_56_+0000_zonAGU8BeHzm8.Ip Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQMmm96zL6DUtXhERAks8AJ98QAKOUK35cKZsE5fiE0fHHe45DQCfWsUD BAdB/J/ST8tT5Qrz3i5D62c= =SvVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Wed__23_Mar_2005_01_42_56_+0000_zonAGU8BeHzm8.Ip-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list