New package naming scheme

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Thu May 1 03:14:30 UTC 2014


On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:04:05AM +0200, poma wrote:
> 
> There is a discrepancy in the terminology of these two packages:
> - kernel-drivers[1]
> - kernel-modules-extra
> 
> Are these[1] modules passed the driving test?
> Should I read the "Banana Split" thread, again?
> Perhaps the "kernel-modules" for the "kernel-drivers" is the proper name.

I should have brought that up when the split was first proposed, but I
agree and I do not like this inconsistency.  The new one should be
called kernel-modules, or the old kernel-modules-extra should be
renamed kernel-drivers-extra.


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