svn commit: r227536 - in head: release share/man/man7

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 17 14:31:49 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 08:03:40AM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 13:42 +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:24:10AM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> > > Or both?  We're heading in the direction of having both for the FTP
> > > server tree.
> > > 
> > > Kinda gross but "FBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-amd64-bootonly.iso"?
> > 
> > Can't we use one if they are equal?
> 
> I'd prefer consistency. [...]

But it looks so plain stupid!

> I picture a higher percentage of people being confused about why some
> architectures have one name while other architectures have two versus
> people being confused about all of them having two names.

And people would have to believe that we as a Project are so dumb that we
could not figure out how to avoid this trivial redundancy when it is clearly
not anywhere being useful.  :-(

./danfe


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