On Thursday 26 of May 2011 21:19:36 Filip Filipov wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 19:34, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@gmail.com>wrote:
Linux is the name of the kernel so using "linux" as the name of the kernel package would be correct. After all, the tarballs on kernel.org are named "linux-{version}". :)
yes. My idea was that if you look at it, at an higher abstraction level you have: 1) if you search for 'linux' you don't go to kernel.org 2) if you search for 'kernel' you go to kernel.org and get an linux-... named package.
so at the end there is no correct or wrong name for a choice. The answer to my "question"(do you?) is here yes.
pacman -Ss linux has more noise than pacman -Ss kernel. Had the same "problem" on debian, but this might have been my defect as I was comming from Arch :) Distribution is named Arch*Linux*, so "kernel" sounds more to the point, but upstream has another opinion. Just my 2c Regards,