[pacman-dev] Translation problem

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 17:06:35 EDT 2007


On 4/10/07, Matthias Gorissen <siquame at web.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 10 April 2007 20:55:35 schrieb Dan McGee:
>
> > 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
>
> Yepp, I see what you mean - but the mystery about NEW remains. I simply
> assumed that there must an equivalent NEW file (which I cannot find) - and to
> assume that NEW was capitalized accidentally doesn't make sense either: Why
> should pacman use "new conflicts"? I thought it should read "NEW conflicts
> [with %S]"
>
> Still clueless, Matt

Best guess is that someone just wanted to accent the fact that it was
new. Basically boldface on the console.

-Dan




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