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Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3



Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
> > I guess that makes sense, if you interpret it as meaning something like
> > `Hard work is the partner of success' -- which sort of works with `apt'
> > too (partner of apt?).
> 
> I don't think that derivation is correct.  The `fu' really has no
> meaning in the original meaning of the word `kung-fu', which is
> simply time spent doing things.

Well I certainly have no idea of the historical background of the word,
but my `guessed derivation' does actually sort of make sense in that
context...

Do you have a dictionary that gives the historical derivation?

-Miles
-- 
Yo mama's so fat when she gets on an elevator it HAS to go down.



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