On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Alexander Berntsen
If we do this, over time we'll save another 60+ packages the trouble of doing the same thing. This looks pragmatic now, but I, for one, think that in the future we would be appreciative of our decision to stick to conventions instead of giving in to the slippery slope of myopic pragmatism.
Descriptivism vs. prescriptivism. Somehow, prescriptivism never seems to work out in the long run; people do what they do. If they're added as mif etc., I expect those 60+ later packages will break out as 2 using the official ones and 58+ using homegrown ifM etc. still because their authors didn't notice the "weird names" ones. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net