Once upon a time, Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 16:05 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 20:22 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > What's the benefit of using a particular non-standard math symbol in the > > > spec file? It just makes it unreadable for a lot of people. This is not > > > some kind of sport. > > > > Right, I think I can summarise this thread by saying that the vast > > majority of people want Nicholas to use - as the bullet like everyone > > else. > > Noisy minority fallacy. In this particular case, I wouldn't necessarily say it is a minority. It might be a majority of the people that regularly read changelog entries that are complaining. There is a de facto standard: use a "-" (ASCII 0x2D) as the "bullet" in a RPM spec file changelog entry. Is there any valid reason to use anything else (especially characters that most people won't even be able to see)? Does there have to be a defined standard for every little thing, or can people just exercise a little common sense and follow the common practice (unless there is a good reason to do otherwise)? This whole thing seems a little childish to me. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
