On Wednesday 04 April 2012 19:00:44 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi:
> > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:14:55 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > > ... since Lenny, apt-get will continue to install recommended
> > > packages by default.  So I believe "has" is redundant, even though
> > > it's correct.
> >
> > What is wrong with :
> >
> > Apt-get will continue to install recommended packages by default.
>
> How long? Maybe it stops doing so tomorrow?
>
> I am perfectly fine with "installs". Thats what it does up to do today.
> Since Lenny says since then, but past tense is IMHO misleading since apt-
> get still does it. Of course I can write:
>
> apt-get has installed recommended packages since Lenny. It still installs
> recommended packages in Squeeze. It is likely that it will install
> recommended packages in Wheezy. And heck it might even do that in Wheezy
> +1.
>
> Now seriously, I prefer the one sentence version of it with "installs".

But it is grammatically incorrect in English.

Lisi


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