From owner-svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 20:36:50 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A4B3405; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:36:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "ca.infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24AB5E5B; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maggot.black-earth.co.uk (maggot.black-earth.co.uk [81.2.117.101]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id t0NKaQ43007572 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:36:37 GMT (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.9.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk t0NKaQ43007572 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/t0NKaQ43007572; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none; dkim-atps=neutral Message-ID: <54C2B0CA.7040204@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:36:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hurd , Baptiste Daroussin , ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r377746 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg References: <201501231557.t0NFvKFE047114@svn.freebsd.org> <54C298A6.4060002@sasktel.net> In-Reply-To: <54C298A6.4060002@sasktel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.5 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:36:50 -0000 On 2015/01/23 18:53, Stephen Hurd wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> - Use SI symbols (MiB instead of MB) > Just a quick nit, SI doesn't define storage units (bits nor bytes - and > B is bel in SI), and the 'Mi' et al. prefixes aren't SI either, they're > IEC... so this is a change from incorrectly used SI prefixes to > correctly used IEC ones. Technically, no, they're not strictly part of SI, but they're endorsed by the BIPM for use alongside SI units (http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/chapter3.html). and more importantly, the BIPM forbids the use of the SI prefixes to mean powers-of-2 multipliers. B for 'byte' is an accepted usage, and unlikely to be confused with B for 'Bel' (also not an SI unit, and in any case almost never seen as anything other than dB.) I don't believe this to be a problem. If we ever have to worry about measuring anything to do with package management in dB, then we can certainly revisit the whole subject. Cheers, Matthew