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Re: What is going on with udev?



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Frans Pop wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:15, Steve Greenland wrote:
>> Thanks for the pointer, Adam, and a giant "Feh!" to the genius who came
>> up with that idea.
> 
> Did you even think of asking for the rationale behind the name change?
> 
> Hint: check the archives of the kernel mailing list.
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP

I think this is because debian supports other kernels (like freebsd and
GNU/Hurd) too. So having linux named as a "kernel" package doesn't cover
others.

rrs
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