From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: List packages Status column terminology Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:35:56 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87lhyey8tv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87bnzbi4ti.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389969390 9909 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2014 14:36:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:36:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 17 15:36:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4AXE-0005F0-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:36:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38657 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4AXE-0007dd-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:36:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4AWr-00078O-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4AWl-0005N6-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:36:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36727) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4AWl-0005LI-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4AWj-0004kH-O0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:36:05 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f3e46e.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.243.228.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:36:05 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f3e46e.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:36:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f3e46e.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tWDh9ols7puiVY/YhNCvYyiFEpM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168616 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Why use the word 'available' instead of 'install'? > > Because the top of the columns say that it's about the "Status", and > saying that the "Status" of that package is "install" would make > no sense. > > "available" is not a great choice, tho. The suggested "not installed" > might be a bit better, but it's longer and I'd rather try and shorten > this column. > > Any other idea? installable? uninstalled? I think the latter is the term the Debian package manager uses. -- David Kastrup