[patch] add applications - tarballs

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Wed Apr 5 09:02:59 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 09:13 -0700, Jeff Schering wrote:

> How about this:
> 
> 1. Use RPM when talking about the Redhat Package Manager, and .rpm
> when talking about a file created or used by RPM. That is, .rpm files
> are the format used by RPM.
> 
> 2. Similarly for .deb files, except they are used by apt-get and the like.
> 
> 3. Apt-get and the like at the beginning of sentences should have the
> first letter capitalized.
> 
> 4. Never use .deb or .rpm at the beginning of a sentence. There is
> always a way to work around having .deb or .rpm or .anything at the
> beginning of a sentence.
> 
> Does that work?

Works for me.

Matt
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