Re: Configure.help editorial policy

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:12:40 -0500


Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>:
> It doesn't help anything if there are more precise
> terms when they're used inconsistently. Somebody will
> have to check and fix this, continuously.

The situation is not as bad as you think, Rik. I grepped; the Documentation
subtree only has 17 instances of KB, of which about 6 clearly don't need
correcting as they really are referring to disk capacities. The patch to
fix these references would not be large.

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