[aur-general] docker v. docker

Ido Rosen ido at kernel.org
Tue Nov 26 10:05:09 EST 2013


Hi, I'm the maintainer of lxc-docker and lxc-docker-git in AUR.  I'd love
to rename it to docker!  The current extra/docker can be renamed to
docker-tray or something similar?


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com>wrote:

> extra/docker is currently a very old system tray app for openbox2,
> kde3 and gnome2. It hasn't been updated in a very, very long time.
>
> docker (https://www.docker.io/) on the other hand, is a widely used
> and current container solution. As of 0.7, it's now available on all
> distributions (previously was only available on ubuntu).
>
> There will be a naming conflict between the two very soon. I would be
> in favour of renaming extra/docker preemptively since it hasn't been
> updated in a decade.
>
> J. Leclanche
>


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