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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: strange english in docstring
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:17:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kjabkt6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YANQ91tu5V91m8iC@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:47:51 -0500")

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 08:51:32PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I don't understand the following docstring
>> english (even if I guess the meaning):
>> 
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system.scm#n861
>
> Indeed, it looks like a typo.
>
> I bet it was rewritten from something like "Return *something*
> containing the static part of the /etc directory."
>
> It should probably say "Return a <service> that builds the static part
> of the /etc directory."

Oops, I’ll push a fix.

Thanks,
Ludo’.


      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-21 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-16 19:51 strange english in docstring Vincent Legoll
2021-01-16 20:47 ` Leo Famulari
2021-01-21 11:17   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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