Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:05:42
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0511051755100.2090@terciopelo.krait.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two by Ciaran McCreesh
1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
2 Hash: SHA1
3
4 On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5
6 > On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:28:33 +0100 Grobian <grobian@g.o> wrote:
7 > | > Preemptive
8 > | > Users should be told of changes *before* they break the user's
9 > | > system, after the damage has already been done.
10 > |
11 > | style suggestion for unambigous interpretation:
12 > | perhaps a "because if applied afterwards" instead of "after"
13 >
14 > Ugh. Wonder how many comments I'm going to get on that one... There
15 > should be a "not" before "system", which I accidentally killed by
16 > pressing the wrong key in Vim.
17 >
18
19 I can't resist. I think you mean '"not" after "system,"': "...*before*
20 they break the user's system, not after ...."
21
22 Regards,
23
24 - --
25 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
26 Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc, devrel)
27 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
28 Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
29
30 iD8DBQFDbPLTQa6M3+I///cRAsAhAKDgotmZ+E9TMdLAgzUbVj8s3++mVwCfeVoj
31 9TSuRiLKvIofQFPp/RRrC4I=
32 =1MKl
33 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
34 --
35 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>