[pacman-dev] Translation problem

[Dan McGee]

On 4/10/07, Matthias Gorissen <siquame at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I participated in the German translation of pacman3. So far, we haven't been
> able to make sense out of the following lines:
>
> #: lib/libalpm/conflict.c:201
> #, c-format
> msgid "target '%s' is also in target list, using NEW conflicts"
>
> I assume there is a reason for using capital letters here - some fixed
> convention I simply don't know about. So what exactly does NEW refer to?
> Capital letters also appear as "DESC", "FILES" and "DEPENDS" - any explanation
> for a non-programmer would be welcome.

Not sure why NEW is capitalized, but the reason for the other three is
probably because these are files that exist in the pacman DB. Take a
look at the files listed under /var/lib/pacman/local/*/ (just pick a
package directory).

-Dan