Hi Benno, Nice to see you here too. :) 1. Understood. I think I read too quickly the second line for --version. 2. My first suggestion is "too neutral" for that context. Your suggestion probably sounds better. I presume that something more explicit but longer is worse, such as: "partition #7 cannot be removed, as it doesn't exist" Antonio On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Antonio, :) > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015, at 11:11, Antonio Ceballos wrote: >> msgid "" >> " -V, --verbose explain what is being done;\n" >> " specifying -V more than once will cause a dry-run\n" >> >> msgid "" >> " -V, --version display version information and exit;\n" >> " -V as --version must be the only option\n" >> >> You can see '-V' (uppercase) for both --verbose and --version. Is that correct? > > It is. As the second line for --version tries to explain, -V *only* means > --version when no other option is specified. -V together with other options > means --verbose. > >> 2. Could the English wording be improved in the following sentence? >> msgid "%s: partition #%d already doesn't exist\n" > > Hmm, yes, it should. In Dutch I have translated it to the equivalent > of "partition #%d doesn't even exist" -- which sounds a tiny bit like: > "you're stupid". So I'd better change that. :| > >> I would suggest something like: >> msgid "%s: partition #%d doesn't exist\n" >> msgid "%s: partition #%d no longer exists\n" > > The latter one does not seem correct -- maybe the partition never > existed at all. The verbose message was introduced with commit > ab025087f91b66ee8e23a16bc49eb0d9bd421d65 -- when a range of > partitions is specified for removal, say 5 to 9, and partition 7 > does not exist, then, when --verbose is specified, partx would > mention that "partition #7 already doesn't exist". Probably it is > better so say something like "skipping nonexistent partition #7"? > What do you think? > > Benno > > -- > http://www.fastmail.com - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > unladen european swallow > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
