From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add tlp. Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:14:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20170210141414.GA22019@jocasta.intra> References: <20170131210118.3128-1-m.othacehe@gmail.com> <20170210062609.GA18340@jocasta.intra> <87r336dxdo.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccBy6-0007VO-Gz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:14:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccBy5-0004Uc-Ex for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:14:34 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r336dxdo.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: =20 > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:01:18PM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > + (home-page "http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html") > + (synopsis "Power management tool for Linux") > + (description "TLP is a power management tool for Linux. I= t comes with > > Shouldn't we changed "Linux" to "Linux based GNU systems" or somethi= ng similar? =20 It uses interfaces specific to the kernel Linux so I think it???s technically correct. But grammatically incorrect. Specifically, the preposition "for" is wrong. It implies that the package provides some feature that Linux can use. Where= as the opposite is true. A more gramatically correct sentance might say "power management tool using= =20 Linux kernel features". But I wonder why we even mention it? I mean if a package happens to use li= bc, we don't say in the package description or sysnopsis "an editor which makes using th= e=20 fopen, and fclose calls of glibc". =20 --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlidyrYACgkQimdxnC3oJ7PWQgCfa0MOLe04cLoXR4S65o+yzv// rsIAn1WSPenAiy/KylHdf+ImXInVcGkY =7nT9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--