On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:14:31PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 05-Nov-03, 19:14 (CST), Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@compsoc.dur.ac.uk> wrote: > > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > > linux-kernel-* or linux-* ? If alternative kernels in debian become > > more popular, is there a potential for confusion in the future? > > Surely these won't all show up in the same Packages file...if you're > running GNU/KFreeBSD, it will be a FreeBSD kernel, right? Why would the > Linux and Hurd kernels even be in the list? It would be nice to be able to [relatively] easily switch between kernels. I have no idea if that is possible, but it would be nice. :) - Keegan
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