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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Wine.


From: Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Wine.
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:05:58 -0200

Em Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:45:01 +0100
John Darrington <address@hidden> escreveu:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:41:19PM +0800, ????????? wrote:
> 
>      +     "Wine (originally an acronym for \"Wine Is Not an
> Emulator\") is a +compatibility layer capable of running Windows
> applications on several +POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as
> Linux, 
> 
>       "Linux" is not an operating system.

On the other hand, GNU can be regarded as a POSIX-compliant operating
system.

By the way, what's the Guix packaging policy about "GNU" vs "GNU+Linux"
vs "GNU+Linux-libre" vs "Linux" nomenclature in package descriptions?

Exceptional cases aside, I think the healthiest way is to make every
reference go to "GNU" alone.

-- 
 ,= ,-_-. =.  Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF]
((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU;
 `-'(. .)`-'  GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels;
     \_/      All software must be free as in freedom;

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