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On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> Starting with 2015-03-29, we are enabling the true multilib support |
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>> on amd64 and masking the old emul-linux-x86 package sets for removal. |
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>> This change provides |
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> I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't a future tense be used here? |
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>> our users with the opportunity to build 32-bit |
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>> libraries from source with all the flexibility given by ebuilds, rather |
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>> than relying on pre-packaged binary versions of them. |
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I suggest: |
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Starting on 2015-03-29, we are enabling true multilib support |
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on amd64 and masking the old emul-linux-x86 package sets for removal. |
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This change provides our users with the opportunity to build 32-bit |
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libraries from source with all the flexibility given by ebuilds, rather |
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than relying on pre-packaged binary versions of them. |
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I just changed "with" to "on" and dropped a "the." I think this |
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sounds fairly natural - a grammar nazi might disagree, but I'd rate |
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the paragraph above average for a native born American college |
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graduate. (Granted, that isn't saying a whole lot). Without those |
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tweaks I'd say it is still better than a lot of stuff that passes for |
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prose these days. :) |
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Trust me, you don't want to see my attempts at German, so I'll be the |
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last to critique anybody's use of English (American or otherwise)... |
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Rich |
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