noarch vs. all, x86_64 vs. amd64, kernel vs. linux and PAE

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 03:09:11 UTC 2015


On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Petr Stodulka <pstodulk at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 14.8.2015 14:38, Wei-Lun Chao wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there already any discussion about:
>> rename arch name "noarch" to "all"
>> rename arch name "x86_64" to "amd64"
>> rename package name "kernel-PAE" to "kernel"
>> and even rename package name "kernel" to "linux"
>>
> IMO really bad idea in all cases.
>
> Petr
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​Out of all of those suggestions, the only one that might have any real
value would be renaming "kernel" to "linux", but only if we were interested
in introducing other FOSS kernels as options into the distribution. At this
time, I seriously doubt anyone wants to do this...​



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