Am Freitag, den 11.12.2009, 15:57 -0600 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Benjamin Drung] > > Yes, the name is a bit to generic. Any other suggestions for the name? > > On the mailing list I found 'release-info'. On my list are now: > > > > * release-info > > * distro-release-info > > * distro-releases > > I'd go with 'os-release'. Mostly because I hate the word 'distro'. To avoid the distro/os discussion, I will use release-info as package name. It's short and not too generic. > Unix tradition is to have a bit of OS release info in one flag of > 'uname' or another, but of course on Linux, where the kernel and the > userland are fairly decoupled, this makes less sense. > > (Also, one might think /usr/share/misc/config.guess could say whether > we're on debian or ubuntu ... but it doesn't.) -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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