[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

[Vytautas Stankevičius]

On Thursday 26 of May 2011 21:19:36 Filip Filipov wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 19:34, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at 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,