[haiku-development] Re: Name the package manager "Software Valet"
- From: Fredrik Andersson <fredrikandersson@xxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:52:41 +0200
And yet you vote for Haiku Depot??
Which has absolutely nothing to do with package management in any language I
know.
(But has about as much relevance as to name a tool Charlie because that's the
local mailguy)
However,
+1 Depot.
4 jun 2013 kl. 14:04 skrev "Alex-P. Natsios" <apnatsios@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Fredrik Andersson
> <fredrikandersson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think it's generally quite irrelevant what a english word happens to mean
>> in another language.
>
> I strongly disagree with that. for a variety of reasons that are too
> long and would turn us entirely offtopic (take pidora[1] as a hint
> though)
>
> There is no word in Greek that could be close sound/pronunciation wise
> with the word "valet" (unlike with our Italian friends) so its not
> directly a confusion in that way.
>
> But its translation has nothing to do with packages nor would it be
> anywhere near comprehensible by the common eye (hell even I wouldn't
> realize the meaning and i am not new to either FOSS or
> software/package management in general).
>
> +1 to Haiku Depot though.
>
> [1]http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Pidora_Russian
> --
> Regards,
>
> Alex-P. Natsios
> (a.k.a Drakevr)
>
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