New package naming scheme

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leitner at gmail.com
Thu May 1 03:40:42 UTC 2014


Em 01-05-2014 00:14, Chuck Anderson escreveu:
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:04:05AM +0200, poma wrote:
>>
>> There is a discrepancy in the terminology of these two packages:
>> - kernel-drivers[1]
>> - kernel-modules-extra
>>
>> Are these[1] modules passed the driving test?
>> Should I read the "Banana Split" thread, again?
>> Perhaps the "kernel-modules" for the "kernel-drivers" is the proper name.
>
> I should have brought that up when the split was first proposed, but I
> agree and I do not like this inconsistency.  The new one should be
> called kernel-modules, or the old kernel-modules-extra should be
> renamed kernel-drivers-extra.

I vote for kernel-modules and kernel-modules-extra, as not all modules 
are drivers.

Marcelo



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