On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:51:20PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Dominic Hargreaves] > > HybServ is a daemon that connects to your IRCD-Hybrid server and > > automagically provides nickname, channel, memo, and oper services to your > > entire network if it is configured correctly to talk with your IRC server. > > "Automagically"? When you install a server package, configure it, and > start it, and it then provides services, would you really describe that > as not only automated, but like magic? > > It seems to me that that's a pretty pessimistic view of server software > in general. My own expectation is that if I install, configure and > start a daemon - any daemon - it will provide whatever services it is > supposed to provide. And if it does, I don't see anything especially > automatic or magical about it. I mean, _all_ software is "automatic" > in a sense, and very little software is really "magic". > > All of which is to say, I would drop the word 'automagically'. And not > just because I dislike neologisms, although I do.
I agree with everything you said :) ITP just has the details from the existing package, but I have removed the word from my git repository. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
