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Re: kernel-* package names



On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:14:28PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:19:14PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > I clearly never looked into it. I will never do it either. I only
> > forgot that the Linux build system sucks.
> 
> We have a winner.

A winner of what?

> If anyone forgets why people get pissed off by whiney
> marginally-useful-port partisans/leeches, they can staple this one
> to their monitor. 

I don't see why people should get pissed off when somebody says his
opinion.

> Aren't there enough real problems to fix that we don't have to gripe
> about the naming of the damn linux kernel source package?

If there is some other problem to fix doesn't mean that this one
shouldn't be fixed. I don't say it's a high priority bug, but it
should be fixed.

> Since all the other equivalent packages have different names it
> looks like the "problem" was solved.

No the problem is still there.

> If someone's pissed that their spiffykernel-image package can't be
> called kernel-image they can moan till they're blue in the face and
> I just won't care. (And I don't think I'll be the only one...)

You missed the point. Kernel-image is the wrong name and that should
be fixed.

Jeroen Dekkers
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