On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:44:22PM +0100, Tim Jackson wrote: > Please may we have an additional option "None"? > > I cannot see any useful purpose for this other than to make > non-technical or new users wonder why we have two names for one piece of > software, one of which nobody uses and doesn't appear to bear any > resemblance to anything other than some bad, cliquey in-joke. > > Fortunately we don't use it *quite* as prominently as some other Linux > distributions (why on earth would I want to admit to someone that I use > an operating system called "potato"?) but these names still make me cringe. ... and while we're at it, can we please get rid of the "cute" names for ordinary software? I was trying to blow away unused packages yesterday and was wondering what on earth "libpurple" (48MB) "gutenprint-foomatic" (49MB) "poppler" (14MB) etc do. ..... and while I'm grumbling, at least "libgweather" has a useful name. But why on earth is it almost 50MB in size?? And there are three copies of it installed on my machine? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
