Bug#692789: ITP: hybserv -- IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:51:20PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Dominic Hargreaves]
> > HybServ is a daemon that connects to your IRCD-Hybrid server and
> > automagically provides nickname, channel, memo, and oper services to your
> > entire network if it is configured correctly to talk with your IRC server.
>
> "Automagically"? When you install a server package, configure it, and
> start it, and it then provides services, would you really describe that
> as not only automated, but like magic?
>
> It seems to me that that's a pretty pessimistic view of server software
> in general. My own expectation is that if I install, configure and
> start a daemon - any daemon - it will provide whatever services it is
> supposed to provide. And if it does, I don't see anything especially
> automatic or magical about it. I mean, _all_ software is "automatic"
> in a sense, and very little software is really "magic".
>
> All of which is to say, I would drop the word 'automagically'. And not
> just because I dislike neologisms, although I do.
I agree with everything you said :) ITP just has the details from the
existing package, but I have removed the word from my git repository.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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