Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:52:21 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf rtld.1 Message-ID: <20030519135221.GG28176@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3EC8CBF2.2000205@tcoip.com.br> References: <20030517121209.GA52158@sunbay.com> <200305171223.h4HCNLgN080867@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20030518025939.GX55386@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3EC8CBF2.2000205@tcoip.com.br>
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--DWg365Y4B18r8evw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:20:02AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >On Saturday, 17 May 2003 at 13:23:21 +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > > > >>Ruslan Ermilov writes: > >> > >>>>Sorry to sound pedantic: can we loose the modc(7) police from now on? > >>>>It does not seem to add much value to me. > >>>>=3D20 > >>> > >>>This is to denote that the commit deals with markup > >>>and other tidying only. Do you have a better suggestion? > >> > >>"mdoc(7) police" sounds a bit strong. The rest of the commit message > >>is OK, so leaving out that bit is all that Wilko is asking for. > > > > > >Agreed. I've always had this impression that "police" implies > >something like "police state". I'm sure that's not the way it's > >intended, but it somehow has unpleasant connotations for me. >=20 > mdoc(7) advisory committee. :-) >=20 I don't care much how these get tagged; this was named after the "style(9) police", if that matters. One of the main meanings of the verb "police", according to www.m-w.com is "to make clean and put in order", and I used it pretty much in this sense (and I thought that "style(9) police" means this same). But if native speakers think differently, I'm fine with it. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --DWg365Y4B18r8evw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+yOGVUkv4P6juNwoRApryAJ9nbxAn+rGODHNB2TkOuKFjXqJoKACfQbyH LxOWHKBGkcJsigchfn6SHHo= =4DIk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DWg365Y4B18r8evw--
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