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bug#9210: Documentation: misleading wording


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: bug#9210: Documentation: misleading wording
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:29:40 -0500 (CDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14)

On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Christophe Jarry wrote:

Dear maintainers,

Today I browsed
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Configure-notes.html#Configure-notes
and read this:

   When building on some linux systems [...]

I am surprised you use the name "linux" to designate the entire system. I think
you should use "GNU/Linux" instead. For more information, please read
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.

While libtool is a GNU project, I think that this effort by the FSF to independently re-entitle Linux to "GNU/Linux" subsequent to the effective failure of their Hurd OS is foolish and it ignores that most software in a typical "Linux" system is not the Linux kernel or FSF/GNU software. I think that it is better to stick with the names that the developers of the Linux kernel and the users prefer to use.

The same logic could be used to create the names GNU/FreeBSD, GNU/NetBSD, GNU/Solaris, GNU/Darwin, etc., because most of these OSs include some GNU components.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/





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