From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jason Self" Subject: Re: Distro name Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:51:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1357167116.1974@bluehome.net> References: <87txqz8dv8.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1357167116" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqXL6-0001eb-Gl for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:03:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqXL5-0008TO-D6 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:03:12 -0500 Received: from q-static-134-174.avvanta.com ([206.124.134.174]:45007 helo=bluehome.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqXAD-0003yD-SF for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:51:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87txqz8dv8.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: bug-guix@gnu.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --bound1357167116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ludovic Court=C3=A8s said: > The problem is that =E2=80=9CGNU=E2=80=9D is (supposedly) synonym for GNU/Hurd, or > at least for the operating system. > I think it makes sense to distinguish the OS from the distro, no? Hmm. It might make sense to differentiate when a third party is involved, but not when the GNU Project itself is doing it. (Reference "GNU Hurd is not the same as GNU/Hurd" [0].) "However, such third-party distributions are distinct from what an official complete GNU system release would be; and thus we often call them GNU/Hurd for clarity, similar to GNU/Linux or GNU/kFreeBSD." Does it make sense to say "Yes it's all GNU (except for any non-GNU dependencies that those GNU packages may have), yes it uses the GNU Project infrastructure, yes it's being worked on by GNU folks, but not it's not GNU. We're distributing something else." I guess it depends on what you define an "an official complete GNU system release" to be. That would ultimately have to come from RMS, of course, but if the only difference is the kernel (but both kernels are official GNU packages) and the distro offered the option of using both of them, the line seems perhaps a little bit more blurry in that regard. [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2011-q2-ps.html --bound1357167116--