Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:35:10
Message-Id: 6168471.j2biIEi0Lp@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning by Alan McKinnon
1 On Saturday 19 September 2015 21:11:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3
4 > > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can
5 > > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that
6 > > they are human-readable.
7 >
8 > Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable.
9 >
10 > Labels are human *understandable*
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12 Well, it isn't often I can call someone else a pedant, but now's my big chance
13 so I'm taking it - pedant!
14
15 :-)
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17 Personally, I'd just say that labels are legible and leave it at that.
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19 --
20 Rgds
21 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>