Re: possible compromise for ITP: linux?
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:22:13PM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote:
> Hello!
Hi Eike,
> The discussion doesn't seem to be very productive any more.
> Time to come to a compromise?
Sounds nice.
> What about letting Robert build and upload (if ftp-masters agree)
> his package, *if* he puts it in experimental, uses a description
> that contains a warning about the experimental status of the
> package in a prominent place, and not calling it "linux", but...
> (Robert, please choose. linux-tng, linux-experimental and other
> names have been proposed). If all works out fine and such packages
> eventually become the standard way of installing the linux kernel,
> the name could be changed then (as well as distrubution and description).
> If it's not working, an important package name stays usable.
I agree with all the above, as long as there's consensus to do that.
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
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