New package naming scheme

Justin M. Forbes jforbes at redhat.com
Thu May 1 12:40:14 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 05:04 +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.

When dealing with the general Fedora public (not those who typically pay
attention to the kernel in specific), I think kernel-drivers gives a
sense of "hey, I might need this package" when something is not working.
Kernel-modules-extra is really a package of things we expect very few
people to be using and should not be considered of the same urgency.
While yes, the naming is inconsistent with the two packages, I think it
is consistent with the intent.

Justin



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