Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:24:26 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Allan Bowhill <abowhill@blarg.net> Subject: Re: Bug in ports howto question Message-ID: <20031125222426.GA3585@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20031125094426.GA39119@kosmos.my.net> References: <20031027200046.33CF516A4DB@hub.freebsd.org> <20031027214510.GA52000@kosmos.mynet> <20031027223648.GC1004@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20031028000708.GA52155@kosmos.mynet> <20031028004319.GF1004@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20031125072702.GG340@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20031125064404.GA38625@kosmos.my.net> <20031125193010.GB67289@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20031125094426.GA39119@kosmos.my.net>
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:44:26AM -0800, Allan Bowhill wrote: > On 0, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> wrote: > :> :> > The skill sets are mutually exclusive. > :> : > :> : aha. you can't possess skill in both skiing and driving. the skill > :> : sets are mutually exclusive. eh? > :> > :> Yep. Skiiing is not driving, and driving is not skiiing. > :> They require mutually exclusive skill sets. > : > : Perhaps it's just my poor English (ESL speaker here, beware!) but > : doesn't "exclude" imply "to prevent the other from existing"? At > : least the online Merriam-Webster would make me believe so. > > No. It just means they are separate entities, not dependent on one > another. You could argue systems administration depends on you ability > to program. You could also argue it doesn't. My problem is with the > definition of systems administration. Wrong. If two things are mutually exclusive that does mean that you can have either the one, or the other, but not both at the same time. I can't imagine any situation in which two skill sets could be mutually exclusive, since that would mean that knowing one set of skills would actually prevent you from knowing the other set of skills, which would be very strange indeed. (Knowing how to ski does not prevent you from knowing how to drive, and knowing how to drive does not prevent from knowing how to ski, thus they are not mutually exclusive skills.) What you apparently tried to convey was that the skill sets are "completely separate", "non-overlapping", or "independent of each other". None of which is equivalent to "mutually exclusive". (If the skill sets in question actually are independent of each other or not, is a question that I will leave for you to discuss.) Here endeth todays English lesson. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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