From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: "Various Services" -> "Miscellaneous Services"
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:57:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760pzqx83.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160913121819.GA22936@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:18:20 +0200")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> skribis:
>
> > * doc/guix.texi (Services): "Various" -> "Miscellaneous"
>
> How does the meaning of these two words differ? (I???m not a native
> speaker, so I???m curious.)
>
> It is a subtle nuance.
>
> What I understand from "Various Services" is "A group of services which I chose arbitrarily".
> Wheras "Miscellaneous Services" means to me: "Services which don't fit into any of the
> hitherto mentioned categories".
>
> Perhaps there is no formal difference, but "various" sounds odd to me in that context.
> I think that "miscellaneous" is more common in such use cases.
I see. Go for it!
Thanks everyone! :-)
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-10 19:18 [PATCH 1/2] doc: "Various Services" -> "Miscellaneous Services" John Darrington
2016-09-10 19:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add GSSD and Pipefs services John Darrington
2016-09-13 11:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-13 13:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add GSSD and Pipefs services (Usage of @var) John Darrington
2016-09-14 14:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-21 18:29 ` John Darrington
2016-09-24 3:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-15 5:06 ` "filesystem" vs. "file system" John Darrington
2016-09-15 20:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-25 8:21 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add NFS related services John Darrington
2016-09-30 12:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-30 14:35 ` John Darrington
2016-10-06 2:08 ` [PATCH (3)] gnu: Add NFS related services (moved idmap.conf out of /etc, added texinfo markup to documentation, s/dir/directory) John Darrington
2016-10-06 19:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-08 10:19 ` John Darrington
2016-10-09 5:47 ` John Darrington
2016-10-11 6:37 ` [PATCH (4)] gnu: Add NFS related services. (minor improvements to documentation; Added test to ensure that pipefs mount/umount succeeded() John Darrington
2016-10-11 20:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-13 11:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: "Various Services" -> "Miscellaneous Services" Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-13 12:18 ` John Darrington
2016-09-13 12:31 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-09-13 17:10 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-13 17:42 ` John Darrington
2016-09-13 17:53 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-13 21:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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