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[Karl Goetz]

Matthew East wrote:

> To give an extreme and very unlikely example: imagine if Epiphany
> suddenly changed all the instances of "internet" in their UI to
> "hyperweb". That would obviously be quite confusing, because the
> generally accepted standard word is "internet", and all the other
> related applications use it.
> 
> Now it's an extreme example because the word "internet" is obviously
> _really_ standard, and it's a _really_ common word and there are loads
> of applications that use it.
> 
> However it's the same principle: "repository" is the standard vocabulary
> used and understood by Debian and Ubuntu users, both the Debian and
> Ubuntu websites use it. Changing this in some applications and not
> others is going to create confusion. It should be changed in all of
> them, if at all, I think.
> 
> (For what it's worth, my opinion is that "repository" is a much more
> readily understand term than "channel", that is why it was adopted in
> the first place, I'd say).

I still don't understand how the change to channel is a feature. To me a
channel is something that water flows through, or something on a TV (by
default the latter). A repository is where you store something.
kk

> 
> Matt
> 


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