On Sáb, 2015-08-15 at 15:33 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Sáb, 2015-08-15 at 21:22 +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: > > On 8/14/15, Wei-Lun Chao <bluebat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > yeah, Debian names are all wrong , so I'd suggest do the > opposite , > Debian (and Ubuntu) change "all" to "noarch" , "amd64" to > "x86_64" and > "linux" to "kernel" . > BTW: Debian also should change the apache package name to > httpd, Apache > is an organization not a web server, the web server of Apache > is the > httpd. > > Best regards, > -- > Sérgio M. B. > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: > http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > > 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. Simple as, call the package kernel-freebsd . > 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. > > > The usage of "all" in Debian is largely because the way they treat > architecture independent data differs from how we do it in Fedora. > They try to ensure the architecture independent data is fully reusable > across all architectures they support, while the nature of our > packages mean that "noarch" could differ among architectures and > basically means that it doesn't have any binary data. No, means that package is not dependent of any arch. > > The naming of httpd and bind and a whole bunch of other packages in > Debian is somewhat annoying, since it doesn't really respect > upstream's wishes, but whatever... No , they don't respect upstream's wishes, look at this page : http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache24 source is : httpd-2.4.16.tar.bz2 and is not apache-2.4.1 > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > > Best regards, -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
