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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Distro name
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:48:14 +0100
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Hi!

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:

[...]

>> However, I=E2=80=99ve come to think that we don=E2=80=99t necessarily ne=
ed 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=
=20
> "distro/packages". Could this not be contracted into the very prosaic=20
> "packages"?

You mean (guix packages ...) or (packages ...)?  The latter seems like a
bad idea, because it could collide with something else, and it=E2=80=99s not
sufficiently descriptive (it could be confused with Guile=E2=80=99s guildha=
ll
packaging system, for instance.)

> The distro would then simply be called "guix", no?
>
> Maybe "gig" - "guix is guix", or "gis is gig", a recursive acronym with a=
n=20
> exponential growth (to make fun of terminal recursion) and a certain zen=
=20
> appeal :-)

Heh, OK.  Food for thought.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.