[Pkg-lirc-maint] [RFR] templates://lirc/{lirc-modules-source.templates, lirc.templates}

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Fri Sep 7 12:45:54 UTC 2007


This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said:
> Stephen Gran <sgran at debian.org> wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said:
> > > Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> > > > + The list of needed kernel modules and their parameters may be
> > > > + guessed from your previous answers.
> > > 
> > > "Needed" seems vague here - how badly does it need them?  We have a
> > > richer collection of adjectives that we use for needed packages - can
> > > we use them here?  Do we mean required or suggested or what?  There's
> > > also an "unneeded" later which sounds unnatural to me.
> >
> > Needed is correct, as we are talking about modules that are going to be
> > built from the lirc-modules package for use by lirc.  This is not about
> > package relationships.
> 
> Maybe correct, but confusing to people who don't know how these
> packages interact: so the user doesn't need to have these modules yet?
> 
> How about "The list of kernel modules to build (and their parameters)
> can be guessed from your previous answers."?

<shrug>  I don't see it as confusing at all, but maybe I'm too close.
Either is fine with me.
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