On 5/7/20 7:32 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
On 5/6/20 3:55 PM, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> 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.
dist would work too. jbenc? dzickus? Anyone else before I push a patch?
Since there isn't a strenuous objection to 'os' (although I do like
'dist' too),
I'm going to go with 'os' for the sake of brevity.
P.
P.
>
> - Jeremy
>
>
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