Bug#501439: amend is not symmetric to disable

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

tags 501439 + confirmed
thanks

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 01:45:14PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> I don't understand why enabling addons is done with 'amend'. There
> should at least be an 'enable' alias.

Agreed.

I think the initial "mental process" was that *re*-enabling always
happen after a disable action, hence the idea was to amend that
action.  But yes, you are right, "enable" is a better name. We should
just keep "amend" temporarily for backward compatibility.

Cheers.

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