Package: debram
Version: 0.6.5a
Severity: wishlist
A counted list of similar neologisms from 'man debram':
1 metaramification
1 misramifications
1 misramified
1 subramification
3 subramifications
...'ramus' is Latin for "branch". All those are just bigger words to
signify variations of "tree" and "branch".
"subramification" is needless -- presumably it means "sub-branch", but
"ramification" itself has meant that since at least 1913:
2. A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or
channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or
nerve.
[1913 Webster]
There are several better words and word roots, ("better" meaning
shorter and plainer), e.g.: branch, tree, root, index, category,
class, set, group, family, genus, system, etc.
Caveat: hope it doesn't seem as though I don't appreciate the 'debram'
package, or its name. Many fine utils are named after less usual
synonyms. I'd suppose the good intention of the author was to use a
memorable English word, or portion of one, as the name of the util; yet
"tree" and all the obvious ones were already used... and 'ramify'
wasn't.
The man page shows good intent by trying to consistently employ the
utility's word root to memorably describe what the util does. With
common words that works well:
% whatis tree
tree (1) - list contents of directories in a tree-like format.
...it should be avoided when the only way to emphasize the word root
is to weld on novel prefixes -- unless the task of the util was so new
and different that preexisting terms weren't adequate.
If it would help, I'd be willing to make a man page patch file
with some tentative rewordings.
PS: The 'debram' index itself is quite useful, I've found all sorts of
good stuff with it. Thanks for putting it out there.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages debram depends on:
ii debram-data 0.6.5a debram's architecture-independent
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
debram recommends no packages.
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