[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

[cantabile]

On 05/25/2011 09:36 PM, Ray Rashif wrote:
> On 25 May 2011 23:38, Heiko Baums<lists at baums-on-web.de>  wrote:
>> Linux3.0 can easily cause misunderstandings as Linux is usually used as
>> a generic term for the whole system, the distros, etc. even if the
>> correct naming of the whole system is GNU/Linux and Linux itself
>> actually is only the kernel.
>
> I agree. I'd like for the package to be called simply 'kernel'. That
> fits in with our straightforward approach to package-naming (and
> packaging in general). As long as we can linguistically correlate the
> commands, for .eg:
>
> "I want a kernel for this system" == pacman -S kernel
>
> A derivative distribution or third-party repository which does not use
> the Linux kernel can then still provide a 'kernel' package.
hurr durr

Package names (ours at least) usually go by the project's name, as far 
as I can see.

+1 for "linux"

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