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

Christopher Meng i at cicku.me
Sat Aug 15 22:53:52 UTC 2015


On 8/16/15, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ​To be fair, Debian's use of "linux" over "kernel" is because they actually
> support another kernel (the FreeBSD kernel). If the Fedora Project wanted
> to add FreeBSD kernel support (which, as far as I know, we don't), then we
> would have to talk about how to deal with that issue. Though even then,
> it's pretty easy, since all we would have to do is change kernel and
> kernel-devel into virtual packages that kernel-linux or kernel-freebsd
> would be able to satisfy.

kFreeBSD will cause more trouble to systemd folks, and I remember
there is a feature request about this:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FreeBSD_kernel_integration
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Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

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