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