[Kimchi-devel] [PATCHv5 1/2] Fix: Avoid passing unexpected config params to repository manager

Christy Perez christy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Oct 7 20:10:09 UTC 2014



On 09/26/2014 10:12 AM, Kevin Zander wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 15:02 +0800, Royce Lv wrote:
>> On 2014年09月25日 21:59, Crístian Viana wrote:
>>
>>> On 25-09-2014 10:25, Aline Manera wrote:
>>>>> "gpgcheck": {
>>>>> -                            "description": "Indicates if a GPG signature check on the packages gotten from repository should be performed.",
>>>>> +                            "description": "Indicates if a GPG signature check on the packages got from repository should be performed.",
>>>>
>>>> I think the previous message is right.
>>>
>>> Well, according to Wiktionary, "gotten" has mixed uses in English:
>>> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get#Usage_notes
>>>
>>> Christy, could you give us a hand here? :-)
>> I looked into this one:
>> http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/get--word forms,
>> I'm not expert and is gotten formal English?
>> Discard this change is ok for me;), I just fix it for convenience.
> 
> As past participles of get, got and gotten both date back to Middle
> English. The form gotten is not used in British English but is very
> common in North American English, though even there it is often regarded
> as non-standard.
> 
> In North American English, got and gotten are not identical in use.
> Gotten usually implies the [punctive act /] process of obtaining
> something, as in he had gotten us tickets for the show, while got
> implies the state [durative] of possession or ownership, as in I haven’t
> got any money.
> 
> [Oxford Dictionaries]

Sorry guys. Yes. gotten is correct. :)
> 




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