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Subject: Re: Distro name
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Hello!

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> However, I=E2=80=99ve come to think that we don=E2=80=99t necessarily nee=
d a separate
> name for the distro, but we do need a name for the module name space.
>
> The obvious solution would be (gnu ...).  There=E2=80=99d be modules like
> (gnu packages openssl), which does not mean that OpenSSL is a GNU
> package, but I think that should be clear in this context.  Anyway,
> that=E2=80=99s the option that I like the most currently.

It seems we went on discussing a distro name, but that turned out not to
solve the module name space issue.  :-)

So I=E2=80=99ll rename the (distro ...) modules to (gnu ...), because that=
=E2=80=99s
nicer and more meaningful (=E2=80=9Ca distro of the GNU system=E2=80=9D).

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.