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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



  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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