> > Can we just make a poll or something and post it on the feature request for > this? There is a lot of noise and talk and generally shitty behaviour all > around; I (and I assume many others) are signed up to the mailing list for > AUR related news; not petty arguments over english semantics. >
If you think this thread has become sh!tty, how about you just ignore it from now on? Also, I don't know why creating a ticket on the Bugtracker should be a complementary requirement. My view is that a TU should have made the necessary change immediately after reading my very first message. I was just proving your statement: Honestly, I think it's a joke that we even need to have this discussion. You were also taking the focus off the main issue: that "File Request" (only) needs to be changed at this point. > Since when are jokes considered a waste of time? > Maybe that was another attempt at a joke. I can't really tell because I don't find them funny (no offence). I'm just trying to get a simple problem solved here, and I don't see the point in turning it into an elaborate joke. There's a difference between _understanding_ the syntactical semantics of a > statement to _knowing_ the meaning of an English word. > (By syntactical semantics I mean the semantics that can be derived from > the syntax.) I wasn't suggesting there isn't. I just assumed ESLs learn about "lodge" being used as a verb before they learn all that other crap you were going on about. Does it harm you to read these two mails? Again, I never said it does. I'm simply of the opinion that they're a waste of time (for you as well). You miss my point. > If somebody interpretes a deletion request as a way of getting something, > then he does either understand no English at all, so should get used to use > a dictionary, or lacks the ability of setting up and running an Arch system > completely. > Nor would he be able to use the package on another distribution, by the > way. No, I got that the first time. The issue I have is that two Archers in the last fortnight have misinterpreted "File Request" with respect to my packages alone. I highly doubt that either of them would've bothered to create an AUR account and lodge these requests if they didn't already have a running Arch system. They're not total morons. I want that file too. > Come on, just give the damn file already and let's get this over with. FWIW, I consider that to be a fair bit funnier than the aforementioned jokes. > I totally concur. This discussion is getting less and less productive > with each round of emails. Again: Don't like it? Don't read it! On the OP's proposal though, IMHO, if such user mistakes happen often > enough, a change is certainly warranted. If they, however, occur only > occasionally, then probably the issue shouldn't be high priority. Free > projects like Arch have only so much available resources, after all, > and lengthy discussions tend to eat those resources up quite fast. This necessary yet trivial change would take the right person only a few minutes to implement. The fastest way to render this thread obsolete would be to do so without further delay. The string could at least be changed to "Make a Request" (which no-one seems to have a problem with) as an interim measure.
