Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:47:28PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > > > Your proposal would change that. I oppose it, and I would oppose it just > > the same if you wanted to call them Loki, Kali or Hitler. (To pick a few > > at random.) Using names of e

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Joel Baker
As an aside, the questions that were sent to Mr. Mewburn have been forwarded to the rest of TNF's Board, and scheduled for discussion on their next conference call (in a couple of days). His personal reaction to the thought of renaming the ports to 'codenames' was quite positive; in his (personal)

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Joel Baker
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:15:04AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:01:49AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Of course, I don't really think we should merit religious nonsense with > > the honour of giving name to the products of Debian labour anyway... > > And if we do, le

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Joel Baker
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:09:07PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:19:10PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > > > Having cheated and grabbed an online resource for it from Google, the > > following possibilities show up (my apologies for the lack of accents; > > I can't easily

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Nathan Hawkins
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:19:10PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:15:04AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Actually, given that I'm a long-time and deep-seated Tolkien geek, I rather > > like the notion of using the Valar - they're fictional, and Tolkien's work > > isn't yet out

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Joel Baker
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:40:11PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:01:49AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > >> Branden's second proposal of using something from Pratchett did have a > >> nice ring to it, and then there's always the

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:01:49AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: >> Branden's second proposal of using something from Pratchett did have a >> nice ring to it, and then there's always the valar. > > Actually, given that I'm a long-time and deep-seated Tolkie