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Date:      Mon, 19 May 2003 16:52:21 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf rtld.1
Message-ID:  <20030519135221.GG28176@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <3EC8CBF2.2000205@tcoip.com.br>
References:  <20030517121209.GA52158@sunbay.com> <200305171223.h4HCNLgN080867@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20030518025939.GX55386@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3EC8CBF2.2000205@tcoip.com.br>

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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:20:02AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >On Saturday, 17 May 2003 at 13:23:21 +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> >
> >>Ruslan Ermilov writes:
> >>
> >>>>Sorry to sound pedantic: can we loose the modc(7) police from now on?
> >>>>It does not seem to add much value to me.
> >>>>=3D20
> >>>
> >>>This is to denote that the commit deals with markup
> >>>and other tidying only.  Do you have a better suggestion?
> >>
> >>"mdoc(7) police" sounds a bit strong. The rest of the commit message
> >>is OK, so leaving out that bit is all that Wilko is asking for.
> >
> >
> >Agreed.  I've always had this impression that "police" implies
> >something like "police state".  I'm sure that's not the way it's
> >intended, but it somehow has unpleasant connotations for me.
>=20
> mdoc(7) advisory committee. :-)
>=20
I don't care much how these get tagged; this was named after
the "style(9) police", if that matters.

One of the main meanings of the verb "police", according
to www.m-w.com is "to make clean and put in order", and
I used it pretty much in this sense (and I thought that
"style(9) police" means this same).

But if native speakers think differently, I'm fine with it.


Cheers,
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