[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

Mauro Santos registo.mailling at gmail.com
Wed May 25 15:15:22 EDT 2011


On 25-05-2011 19:36, Ray Rashif wrote:

> 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
> 

That sounds good actually, arch is bleeding edge so naming the packages
kernel and kernel-lts should be enough, the package version would take
care of the rest even if the version jumps to 2.8 then 3.0 and then
2012.01 or whatever.

-- 
Mauro Santos


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