On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:44:55AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 01:45:34PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 2020 07:37:35 -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
Good idea and I think it would be a smart thing to do.
I generally agree but I don't think "ark" is the best option. The kernels are used for Fedora, too, and they will be used for RHEL. We should find a prefix that works for all of those kernels/distros. I was trying to think of something but I could not find anything suitable. It should be short (rules out "downstream") and easily remembered (rules out abbreviations for "downstream").
I had the same opinion. As we migrated the redhat/ over directly from RHEL, it is very much polluted with RHELisms. I am happy to clean up the RHELisms, I would like to use a generic term that covers Fedora/CentOS-stream/RHEL/ARK.
I had thoughts of using 'distro' and using that as a generic framework to push upstream for other distros to plug into, but I never fully flushed out that idea (ie s/redhat//distro//;s/rh-/distro-/).
Though 'distro' is a tad cumbersome. 'os' may work as it is short enough (using Prarit's suggestion) but is it intuitively descriptive enough?
'dist'? I like the shortness of os, but as you say it's not super descriptive. I don't have strong feelings either way, though.
- Jeremy