From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [FRC] News item: Changing USE flags for >=app-backup/bacula
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 01:45:35 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$1bde5$dbd2c3e5$6f668089$5fe81351@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 150281937316.24489.8886457675831488368@ham.local.de
tomjbe posted on Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:49:33 +0200 as excerpted:
> think we can find a proper formulation for the use flag description in
> metadata.xml, e.g.:
>
> director - Installs the backup director additional to the default file
> daemon.
> storage-daemon - Installs the storage daemon additional to the default
> file daemon
FWIW, "additional to" is understandable, but AFAIK nonstandard (sounds
like ESL/English-as-a-second-language, using grammar from the first).
The phrase "in addition to" works much better to my eye/ear.
Or just use "plus", if "in addition to" makes it too long...
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-16 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-14 19:58 [gentoo-dev] [FRC] News item: Changing USE flags for >=app-backup/bacula Thomas Beierlein
2017-08-14 21:55 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-14 22:29 ` Rich Freeman
2017-08-15 4:55 ` tomjbe
2017-08-15 6:43 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-15 9:19 ` tomjbe
2017-08-15 12:16 ` Rich Freeman
2017-08-15 17:49 ` tomjbe
2017-08-16 1:32 ` M. J. Everitt
2017-08-16 1:45 ` Duncan [this message]
2017-08-16 6:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " tomjbe
2017-08-15 8:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-08-15 9:33 ` tomjbe
2017-08-15 9:45 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-08-15 12:21 ` Rich Freeman
2017-08-15 13:25 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2017-08-15 14:02 ` Rich Freeman
2017-08-16 12:36 ` tomjbe
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