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On 08/30/14 17:05, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, Anthony G Basile wrote: |
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>> [...] package management systems (PMS) [...] |
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> Apart from its other more common uses [1,2], "PMS" in a Gentoo context |
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> stands for the "Package Manager Specification" [3] and the project |
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> associated with it [4]. So please do not use the same abbreviation |
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> for the package manager, as this will lead to confusion. Especially, |
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> we must often distinguish between the specification and its |
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> implementation in package managers, and using the same term for both |
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> will not help with this. |
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> Ulrich |
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> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMS |
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> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4PygY-k7Y |
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> [3] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html |
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> [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PMS |
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Thanks for that clarification! There are other changes I want to make, |
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but because I can't directly edit the wiki page, I'll wait for more |
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input before sending a delta creffett's way. |
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