In Oz, cellphone is only used in american movies, here they are called "mobile phones" (formal), "mobiles" (common usage) and "mob" when written (e.g., Mob: 0419...)
There's also the upcoming "cell" processor architecture that may clash in the future. How about app-mobphone or app-mobilephone or perhaps app-mobilephoneutils or some variant of? BillK On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 11:57 -0600, R Hill wrote: > Alin Nastac wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I think we should make a new category called app-cellphone containing > > the following packages: > > net-dialup/gammu > > net-dialup/gnokii > > net-dialup/wammu > > net-wireless/gnome-phone-manager > > > > Yes, I know. It is a short list, but shouldn't be a category > > representative for its content? > > net-wireless/obexftp > net-misc/sms > net-misc/linuxsms > net-misc/ksms > net-misc/gsmlib > net-misc/esms > media-sound/bemused > media-plugins/xmms-btexmms > kde-misc/kmobiletools } > kde-base/kandy } these could probably stay in kde > app-pda/x70talk > app-pda/bitpim > app-misc/ringtonetools > > this doesn't include anything like VOIP of course. btw i think > "cellphone" is an Americanism. i worked for AT&T Wireless before they > were bought by Cingular and the term "cellphone" was discouraged for > that reason. maybe just app-phone? > > --de. > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
