New package naming scheme

[poma]

On 01.05.2014 05:40, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> 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
> 

Very well and succinctly explained!


poma