On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Lisi wrote:
Eqivalent does not equal identical.
"Equivalent" alone woukd be ambiguous. wiktionary.org says:
similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal
but the aptitude man is not ambiguous:
This command was originally named dist-upgrade for historical reasons,
and aptitude still recognizes dist-upgrade as a synonym for full-upgrade.
would you say that "synonym" is not the same as "identical" ?
If they were identical there would be no
point in having the two of them.
it would take a long time to list all programs having identical
processing for some features, and different ones for others.
I consider that it is often a waste of time for developpers ans users
to have so many programs doing almost the same thing.
In an other field, there is no point to have 20 brands of yoghurts in
the supermarkets, and nonetheless you have them...
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