[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

[Marek Otahal]

On Thursday 26 of May 2011 23:18:29 Vytautas Stankevičius wrote:
> 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,
100% agreed! although i think this thread is pointless, 
imagine google search for broken wifi:
gg linux broadcom wifi problem
or
gg kernel broadcom wifi problem 
cheers!
m.
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Marek Otahal :o)
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