YDLFAQ

[Norberto Quintanar]

--- Clinton MacDonald <> wrote:
> Norberto:
> 
> Norberto Quintanar wrote:
> 
> > --- Stefan Bruda <> wrote:
> >>The link is however deprecated, the correct one is
> >>
> >>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml
> > 
> > Deprecated!?  You don't live in the US, do you?  I've never heard
> a
> > yankee use that word unless it was in court.
> 
> "Deprecated" is standard hacker's jargon. I thought everyone knew
> that! ;-)
> 
> "deprecated adj. Said of a program or feature that is considered 
> obsolescent and in the process of being phased out, usually in
> favor of 
> a specified replacement.[...]"
> 
> <http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/d/deprecated.html>

After reading the link, I realized why I having seen it's heavy use. 
It appears in documents.  I very rarely read the manual.

"Manual?!  We don't need no stinkin' manual!"

Unless I have a wobbly table that needs proppin' ;)


	
		
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