On Wednesday 04 April 2012 18:58:07 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* recommended packages by > > > > > > default. > > > > ...since Lenny, apt-get *has installed*...... > > Why? It still does.
Yes, that is why it should be in the perfect. It did and still does. The perfect tense in English describes a present state due to a past action, and is in many ways a present tense rather than a past one. "Installs" excludes the past, "has installed" includes past and present. This is one of the many English tenses/moods which is difficult for non-native speakers to understand, let alone get right. "Since Lenny apt-get installs" is wrong grammatically in English. (You and I can discuss this off-list if you like, Andrei.) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201204042344.04517.lisi.re...@gmail.com
