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| From: | Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages | ||
| Date: | Thu, 20 May 2010 08:08:54 | ||
| Message-Id: | 201005201407.49974.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages by Alan McKinnon |
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| 1 | On Thursday 20 May 2010 09:20:54 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > The root word it derives from basically means "to make smaller or |
| 4 | > less important". |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Actually, in the Mother Tongue, it means "to express disapproval of" (I |
| 7 | quote an Oxford English dictionary). |
| 8 | |
| 9 | > It's not the same thing as "depreciate" or "removed" or "obsolete" or |
| 10 | > "disappeared". |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Indeed, that is most certainly true. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | -- |
| 15 | Rgds |
| 16 | Peter. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |