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Re: Distro name
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Distro name |
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Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:48:14 +0100 |
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Hi!
Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
[...]
>> However, I’ve come to think that we don’t necessarily need a separate
>> name for the distro, but we do need a name for the module name space.
>
> Do we need a namespace "distro"? So far, there is only the sub-namespace
> "distro/packages". Could this not be contracted into the very prosaic
> "packages"?
You mean (guix packages ...) or (packages ...)? The latter seems like a
bad idea, because it could collide with something else, and it’s not
sufficiently descriptive (it could be confused with Guile’s guildhall
packaging system, for instance.)
> The distro would then simply be called "guix", no?
>
> Maybe "gig" - "guix is guix", or "gis is gig", a recursive acronym with an
> exponential growth (to make fun of terminal recursion) and a certain zen
> appeal :-)
Heh, OK. Food for thought. :-)
Ludo’.
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