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From: George Prowse <george.prowse@gmail.com>
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Thomas Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:11:51PM +0100, George Prowse wrote:
>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:34:56 -0400
>>> Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e.
>>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/
>>> There's http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/pms.xml . Unfortunately, rane
>>> decided to go and vandalise it for some reason and no-one working on
>>> PMS appears to have commit access to it...
>> I would like to comment that the wording on that page is unacceptable.
>>
>> "With the advent of alternative package managers, this ill-defined standard
>> is no longer sufficient..." makes it sound like the previous work that was
>> done was by idiots.
>> --
>> gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>
> That says nothing about the previous state of the portage. It only says
> the standard wasn't well-defined before PMS.
>
It sounds and looks bad. It is so poorly written it looks as if the
author is saying "the last one was crap so we have to do a better one".
In fact, "ill-defined" needn't be in there at all. "this is no longer
sufficient" is sufficient. A better thing to write would be:
"With the advent of alternative package managers a further defining of
standard is necessary..."
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