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also sprach Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@xxxxxx> [2008.07.31.1216 +0200]:
> I still don't agree with that. Using debian for some time now,
> I don't believe that most descriptions follow this. Konqueror
> doesn't compare itself to Firefox, vim to emacs, alpine to mutt,
> lighttpd to apache, sbackup, kdat, bacula and backupninja to each
> other, etc...
Fair enough.
> > No, just curious. You could put in the README of package description
> > that the v is arbitrary. Otherwise people might think this is
> > a "virtual backup" programme.
>
> Most of the time i prefer to focus on the actual thing and not consider
> titles
> at all, but since we're talking about this, what "virtual backup" may
> actually stand for? Isn't the description the actual point of reference for
> what a program does?
Sure. But when I saw vbackup, I wondered why it's v*.
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