From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Distro name
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:56:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ip6xdq34.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301160938.22289.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:38:22 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> So I’ll rename the (distro ...) modules to (gnu ...), because that’s
>> nicer and more meaningful (“a distro of the GNU system”).
>
> Even though it contains non-gnu packages?
Well, the famous “GNU System” was always supposed to contain non-GNU
packages.
Plus we’re just talking about a module name space, and using ‘gnu’ at
the beginning is just a way to claim ownership of that name space, not
of the packages that happen to be provided by those modules.
And module names are not really read from left to right; the naming
convention is usually (OWNER FEATURE), or (OWNER CATEGORY FEATURE).
This is all fairly meta. :-)
How does that sound?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-16 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-02 18:02 Distro name Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-02 21:05 ` Jason Self
2013-01-02 21:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-02 22:51 ` Jason Self
2013-01-02 23:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-02 21:49 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2013-01-02 23:14 ` Jason Self
2013-01-02 21:33 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2013-01-02 21:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-03 1:22 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-02 22:42 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-02 22:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-02 23:09 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2013-01-03 8:45 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-03 16:42 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 1:12 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-15 21:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-16 8:38 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-16 16:56 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-01-17 15:02 ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-18 1:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
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