[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Dec 6 02:27:16 CET 2010

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 17:39:08 -0600 (CST), Dale Huckeby
+<spock at evansville.net> wrote:
+> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> 
+>> the english language is pretty rich; and i suspect there are quite a few words
+>> that could convey the correct meaning without the word being too difficult.
+>>
+>> otoh, there is also the fact that "free" or "core" don't really convey the
+>> correct meaning at all either and could be quite dubious.
+>>
+>> patented would be more correct, but i don't wanna call it that, because then
+>> mageia would be sued by patent-lawyers all over the world. don't get me wrong,
+>> it wouldn't be illegal, but it would just be too timeconsuming...
+>>
+>> imho, we should have a simple not too difficult word that somehow shows a bit
+>> about the nature of the contents in it, while still being vague enough.
+> 
+> Okay, short words: iffy, chancy, dicey, knotty, clouded, foggy, hazy,
+> unclear, contro (for controversial),
+> prob (for problematic), equiv (for equivocal), irreg (for irregular).
+> I like iffy best. It's short, it's
+> informal, its meaning is clear, yet it's not too narrow.
+> 
+> Dale Huckeby
+
+Considering the other repo names to be used, we could always call this
+one "other".
+
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