also sprach Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@v13.gr> [2008.07.31.1216 +0200]: > I still don't agree with that. Using debian for some time now, > I don't believe that most descriptions follow this. Konqueror > doesn't compare itself to Firefox, vim to emacs, alpine to mutt, > lighttpd to apache, sbackup, kdat, bacula and backupninja to each > other, etc... Fair enough. > > No, just curious. You could put in the README of package description > > that the v is arbitrary. Otherwise people might think this is > > a "virtual backup" programme. > > Most of the time i prefer to focus on the actual thing and not consider titles > at all, but since we're talking about this, what "virtual backup" may > actually stand for? Isn't the description the actual point of reference for > what a program does? Sure. But when I saw vbackup, I wondered why it's v*. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems people with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.
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