[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

[Ray Rashif]

On 26 May 2011 03:15, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The name would also be backward compatible (if needed), i.e:

kernel26 == a 2.6 kernel package
kernel == a 3.0 kernel package


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