On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Starting with 2015-03-29, we are enabling the true multilib support >> on amd64 and masking the old emul-linux-x86 package sets for removal. >> This change provides > > I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't a future tense be used here? > >> our users with the opportunity to build 32-bit >> libraries from source with all the flexibility given by ebuilds, rather >> than relying on pre-packaged binary versions of them. >
I suggest: Starting on 2015-03-29, we are enabling true multilib support on amd64 and masking the old emul-linux-x86 package sets for removal. This change provides our users with the opportunity to build 32-bit libraries from source with all the flexibility given by ebuilds, rather than relying on pre-packaged binary versions of them. I just changed "with" to "on" and dropped a "the." I think this sounds fairly natural - a grammar nazi might disagree, but I'd rate the paragraph above average for a native born American college graduate. (Granted, that isn't saying a whole lot). Without those tweaks I'd say it is still better than a lot of stuff that passes for prose these days. :) Trust me, you don't want to see my attempts at German, so I'll be the last to critique anybody's use of English (American or otherwise)... -- Rich
