From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:34:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6168471.j2biIEi0Lp@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55FDB363.1030901@gmail.com>
On Saturday 19 September 2015 21:11:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can
> > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that
> > they are human-readable.
>
> Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable.
>
> Labels are human *understandable*
Well, it isn't often I can call someone else a pedant, but now's my big chance
so I'm taking it - pedant!
:-)
Personally, I'd just say that labels are legible and leave it at that.
--
Rgds
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-20 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-19 6:41 [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning Daniel Frey
2015-09-19 8:22 ` Mick
2015-09-19 15:35 ` Daniel Frey
2015-09-19 16:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-19 16:52 ` Daniel Frey
2015-09-19 18:55 ` wabenbau
2015-09-19 18:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-19 19:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-09-19 19:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-19 19:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-09-19 20:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-19 19:44 ` Dale
2015-09-19 21:33 ` Daniel Frey
2015-09-19 22:17 ` Dale
2015-09-20 3:51 ` wabenbau
2015-09-20 8:34 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2015-09-20 9:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-20 12:45 ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2015-09-20 13:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-09-20 16:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-20 17:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-09-20 18:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-20 20:46 ` Paul Klos
2015-09-20 21:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-21 8:35 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-09-20 3:50 ` wabenbau
2015-09-19 15:47 ` Daniel Frey
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