Re: Distro name

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

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Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> And merry new year!  :-)

Thanks, happy new year to all the guix hackers!

> The (distro ...) name for modules of the distro wasn’t meant to last.
> Initially, I thought we could find a name for the distro, and substitute
> that name to “distro”.  Possible names:
>   • Jinn, as in “Jinn is not Nixpkgs/NixOS”;
>   • Guixotic, as Guix + Exotic (suggested by RMS).

Bike shedding, marvellous!

> However, I’ve come to think that we don’t necessarily need a separate
> name for the distro, but we do need a name for the module name space.

Do we need a namespace "distro"? So far, there is only the sub-namespace 
"distro/packages". Could this not be contracted into the very prosaic 
"packages"? The distro would then simply be called "guix", no?

Maybe "gig" - "guix is guix", or "gis is gig", a recursive acronym with an 
exponential growth (to make fun of terminal recursion) and a certain zen 
appeal :-)

Andreas

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