From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Split man directory Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:43:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87odgiv944.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <87fy1v36be.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <85bqcjmo4m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86hcmafwh5.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188913615 20078 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 13:46:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:46:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 15:46:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISYjr-0001zC-Ga for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:46:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISYjp-0008A4-SX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISYjm-00089t-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:46:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISYjl-000898-0M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:46:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISYjk-000895-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISYjk-0007Fw-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ISYhg-0008IY-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:44:28 +0200 Original-Received: from i577bce61.versanet.de ([87.123.206.97]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:44:28 +0200 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i577bce61.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:44:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i577bce61.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77742 Archived-At: On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:25:58 +0200 David Kastrup wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> I'd use "other" or "misc" rather than "contrib": after all, the >>> manuals are all (c) FSF and part of Emacs proper. >> >> Why not "packages"? > > Because they aren't organized as packages at all? A few more possibilities: "extra" "supplementary" (or "supp", "suppl") "auxiliary" (or "auxil", "auxl", since "aux" is a no-no) "additional" (or "add", "addn", "addl") Steve Berman