On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 18:31 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:54:25PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> FWIW, I really don't care, and am fine with uberpackager, ultrapacakger, > > >> and superpackager. > > > > > > Super is probably sane enough but English has a long and distinguished > > > history of stealing other peoples words and using them wrongly so uber- in > > > English [ab]use is not atypical ;) > > > > > > > or adding them together... super-ultra-ginormous packager. > > > > super was used a lot so it was no longer super. I think that is when > > Ultra was the new super.. Uber was the 80's new Super since it 'should > > have' umlauts like any 'proper' Germanic word. I mean how else can you > > have a rock band name without umlauts. I think gi-normous is the > > current generations super... > > How about a more neutral term? > > experiencedpackager > trustedpackager > > Here's some that imply scope rather than "l33tness"? (no, lets not use > l33tpackager as fun as it sounds). Since those packagers can touch > (almost) all packages how about: > > globalpackager > universepackager > everypackager "Allpackager," kind of like "allspice." -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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