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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two</H1>
<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Mon Dec 6 06:00:12 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>Dale Huckeby a écrit :
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</I>><i> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
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</I>>><i> the english language is pretty rich; and i suspect there are quite a
</I>>><i> few words
</I>>><i> that could convey the correct meaning without the word being too
</I>>><i> difficult.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> otoh, there is also the fact that "free" or "core" don't really convey
</I>>><i> the
</I>>><i> correct meaning at all either and could be quite dubious.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> patented would be more correct, but i don't wanna call it that,
</I>>><i> because then
</I>>><i> mageia would be sued by patent-lawyers all over the world. don't get
</I>>><i> me wrong,
</I>>><i> it wouldn't be illegal, but it would just be too timeconsuming...
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> imho, we should have a simple not too difficult word that somehow
</I>>><i> shows a bit
</I>>><i> about the nature of the contents in it, while still being vague enough.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Okay, short words: iffy, chancy, dicey, knotty, clouded, foggy, hazy,
</I>><i> unclear, contro (for controversial),
</I>><i> prob (for problematic), equiv (for equivocal), irreg (for irregular). I
</I>><i> like iffy best. It's short, it's
</I>><i> informal, its meaning is clear, yet it's not too narrow.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Dale Huckeby
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</I>><i>
</I>great idea, abreviations !
contro, irreg, and equiv are abreviations for words that don't question
the quality.
I like contro and irreg best.
We can always give the full word in our documentation which explains the
purpose of each repository.
That would work.
(BTW, when I think about it, iffy could be considered to refer to
quality - but it's still way better than tainted.)
Of course, there should be lots of other abreviations to choose from, if
collectively we don't like one of these.
- André
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