cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf rtld.1

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 19 06:52:41 PDT 2003


On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:20:02AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >On Saturday, 17 May 2003 at 13:23:21 +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> >
> >>Ruslan Ermilov writes:
> >>
> >>>>Sorry to sound pedantic: can we loose the modc(7) police from now on?
> >>>>It does not seem to add much value to me.
> >>>>=20
> >>>
> >>>This is to denote that the commit deals with markup
> >>>and other tidying only.  Do you have a better suggestion?
> >>
> >>"mdoc(7) police" sounds a bit strong. The rest of the commit message
> >>is OK, so leaving out that bit is all that Wilko is asking for.
> >
> >
> >Agreed.  I've always had this impression that "police" implies
> >something like "police state".  I'm sure that's not the way it's
> >intended, but it somehow has unpleasant connotations for me.
> 
> mdoc(7) advisory committee. :-)
> 
I don't care much how these get tagged; this was named after
the "style(9) police", if that matters.

One of the main meanings of the verb "police", according
to www.m-w.com is "to make clean and put in order", and
I used it pretty much in this sense (and I thought that
"style(9) police" means this same).

But if native speakers think differently, I'm fine with it.


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