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Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)



On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 03:28:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote:
> 
> > I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using 
> > meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in 
> > package descriptions in general.
> 
> Sounds like something that should be added to lintian.

Too hard, too many combinations, too much investigation needed to pin
it down. For example, there's over 150 packages using the word 'best'
- I can't imagine that could possibly be right, but you never know
without reading the thing...

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