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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:19:27 -0700 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh posted <20051213032043.55a6e40f@××××××××.home>, |
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| excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:20:43 +0000: |
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| > Ok, new draft. Changes are as follows: |
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| > * Changed /var/lib/portage to /var/lib/gentoo |
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| OK, I must have missed the reason for that, and it isn't listed in |
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| one of your "a previous version" notes, unless I missed that too. <g> |
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It's getting ready for the glorious future when we won't be using |
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Portage any more. I also changed most of the instances of "Portage" in |
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the GLEP to "the package manager". |
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| Wouldn't it be less confusing if the news warning appeared in the same |
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| place, relative to the package listing, in both of these? Isn't an |
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| emerge --ask just the output of pretend, with a confirmation pinned |
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| to the end? Shouldn't it continue to be that, at least in concept? |
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It's a question of visibility. |
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| First, the change outline doesn't state what the result actually was, |
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| in the GLEP. Mandatory would require a MUST (or a similar statement |
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| that it's mandatory), while the GLEP words it as a SHOULD. Or is |
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| "should" not to be taken in the usual RFC meaning, but rather as an |
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| RFC "MUST"? |
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I'm avoiding 'must', because there's probably a legitimate exception |
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somewhere. |
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| Third, recall from the discussion of an earlier draft, someone |
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| mentioned the multiple meaning of read (as here) vs. "read" (as in |
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| README). The suggestion to avoid that ambiguity was "seen" and |
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| "unseen". Another might be (un)viewed. I'm not sure this is a big |
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| enough issue to matter much, particularly with "unread" there as |
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| well, to influence the context, but as I don't recall that point |
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| being addressed, I thought I'd mention it here. |
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Pfff. Email clients use it. Trying to avoid words with multiple |
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definitions in English is pretty much futile. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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