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

Christopher Meng i at cicku.me
Sat Aug 15 13:22:30 UTC 2015


On 8/14/15, Wei-Lun Chao <bluebat at member.fsf.org> 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"

noarch doesn't mean all, and what's 'all' exactly? All archs? All
Fedora versions?

x86_64 and amd64 are just some Debianish still, perhaps last straw to
show amd somewhere or whatever?

As a summary based on your logic, why not just rename Fedora to Debian?
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Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

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