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Re: Renaming of automake to automake1.4



This one time, at band camp, Richard Braakman wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 05:36:57PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
>> Could you explain why this is better? Is it some reference to
>> metroid, or a matroid?
>
>I was thinking of rhomboid, spheroid, trapezoid... also insectoid,
>humanoid, etc.  It should imply similarity without compatibility.

autoborg

Perhaps a nickname which I often hear on IRC: "Provides: autofuck"... or is
that just asking for an invocation of Lazarus Long?

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