Bug#263743: Please use "linux-" prefix
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 06:49:01PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > When judging consistency, you should look at the whole picture. In order to
> > arcieve a fully consistent scheme, the existing Linux architectures need to
> > be renamed too (I filed bug #268709 as a placeholder for this).
> >
> Exactly, and that's not going to happen. So we're left with the
> following naming rules:
>
> - Linux architectures use the architecture name
> (i386, powerpc)
>
> - Non-Linux architectures prefix with the kernel name
> (hurd-i386, darwin-powerpc)
You're avoiding my previous question:
"If consistency is your only concern, how is it that an scheme in which some
arches have "${kernel}-" prefix and some don't is the one we're targetting at
in the long term?"
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