From: Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Ebb (eb) was: Re: RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:14:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120308161406.GH3334@ns1.bonedaddy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120308032204.34ddc078@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net>
* Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> [120307 21:25]:
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:36:05 -0500
> Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > FYI, any Russian speaker is *guaranteed* to read the name ".eb" as a
> > very common obscenity.
>
> In Dutch it means the low tide, and as a verb, it means "becoming low"
> or "decreasing" as in the tide or some other fluid.
>
> In English it means something very similar as in the Dutch verb, only
> without the tidal reference. Other Germanic languages will probably
> have their own variants.
It has the same meaning in English as well. The tide can ebb.
Also, there are ebb tides (and neap tides as well.)
Todd
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Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-07 20:41 [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-07 20:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-07 21:07 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-07 22:04 ` David Leverton
2012-03-07 22:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 0:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 12:03 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-08 15:56 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 17:28 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-08 17:48 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 17:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 18:37 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 18:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 21:35 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 23:31 ` Alec Warner
2012-03-09 3:05 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 5:04 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-09 5:35 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 5:51 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 14:42 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 15:05 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 15:21 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 15:41 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 15:51 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-09 15:58 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 16:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 16:57 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 19:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-10 16:06 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 1:55 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-12 4:08 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 8:36 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-12 15:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-12 16:05 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 16:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-12 16:28 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-14 2:01 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-14 2:16 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 15:52 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-03-09 16:15 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 16:33 ` Eray Aslan
2012-03-09 16:43 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 16:29 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-09 16:57 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 17:11 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-09 17:31 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 17:47 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 18:03 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 19:08 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 2:03 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-12 2:20 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 2:24 ` Alec Warner
2012-03-12 6:57 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 6:50 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 7:08 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 7:39 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 8:27 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-12 8:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-12 9:09 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-12 9:16 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 9:48 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-12 10:12 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 15:20 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 17:01 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 17:30 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 17:46 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 19:20 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 8:39 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 9:10 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-12 3:55 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 17:52 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-12 1:00 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-09 18:02 ` James Broadhead
2012-03-09 18:24 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-09 18:29 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 18:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 18:56 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 19:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-09 20:09 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-19 1:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-03-19 1:36 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-19 3:21 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-24 13:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-03-07 22:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-03-08 2:22 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-03-08 16:14 ` Todd Goodman [this message]
2012-03-08 4:12 ` Alec Warner
2012-03-08 7:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 8:13 ` Alec Warner
2012-03-08 15:27 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 16:11 ` David Leverton
2012-03-08 16:21 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 16:29 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 16:50 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 16:59 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-03-08 17:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 19:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 19:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 19:48 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-08 9:42 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2012-03-08 16:30 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 16:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 17:07 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 17:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 17:30 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-03-08 17:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-10 1:06 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-10 13:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-09 11:28 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2012-03-08 12:06 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-08 15:58 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 16:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 17:03 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-08 16:47 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-03-08 17:52 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-08 17:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 18:22 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 19:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 19:38 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-09 0:50 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-18 7:23 ` Ralph Sennhauser
2012-03-18 11:18 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-18 11:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-12 19:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-12 20:19 ` Mike Frysinger
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