From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmJHT-0001up-EM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:09:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBDN8mrO012694; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:08:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBDN5S91029485 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:05:28 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmJD5-00007E-Md for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:05:27 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EmJBk-0008L0-2I for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:04:05 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:04:04 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:04:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 (Critical News Reporting) round five Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:02:01 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <20051213032043.55a6e40f@snowdrop.home> <20051213192000.1f8e35ff@snowdrop.home> 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@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 573964e7-92df-43ec-9e9d-ce2b5b871a79 X-Archives-Hash: 781587a979ffd9e6feb5025e1af1a781 Ciaran McCreesh posted <20051213192000.1f8e35ff@snowdrop.home>, excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:20:00 +0000: > Duncan wrote: > > | Ciaran McCreesh posted ... > | > | > * Changed /var/lib/portage to /var/lib/gentoo > | > | OK, I must have missed the reason for that > > It's getting ready for the glorious future when we won't be using > Portage any more. I also changed most of the instances of "Portage" in > the GLEP to "the package manager". I noticed the generic "package manager" stuff, but hadn't put two and two together. I have mixed feelings but see the point. > | Mandatory would require a MUST (or a similar statement > | that it's mandatory), while the GLEP words it as a SHOULD. > > I'm avoiding 'must', because there's probably a legitimate exception > somewhere. Makes sense. Just didn't agree with the change summary, and I wondered which was intended. > | Third, recall from the discussion of an earlier draft, someone > | mentioned the multiple meaning of read (as here) vs. "read" (as in > | README). > > Pfff. Email clients use it. Trying to avoid words with multiple > definitions in English is pretty much futile. Agreed. Just hadn't seen the point addressed, and recalled seeing it mentioned. Thanks! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list