On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 11:48 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 15:42 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > >> On 7 September 2010 15:23, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Are you having any discussions about applications like postfix, or is > >> > version 2 going to be just GUI stuff? > >> > >> Postfix is not an application. Applications have translated desktop > >> files and icons. > > > > This is your definition of "application", and IMNSHO not a good one. > > This is goes along with the only definition of application that I am > aware of. Postifx is a system service. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software Application software, also known as an application, is computer software designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks. ...which matches exctly, IMO. But if it's confusing I don't mind referring to this as "<otherword> installing", if you have a less confusing word … I'd just rather not say desktop-application+services +dbus-services+cron-services+etc. installing each time. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
