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Re: 2.6.21 branched and changes for .22



On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:04:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:31:46PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > - Replace the term subarch with something else, it is missleading. I
> >   only have one new term yes: featureset.
> 
> If anything, I would have thought that the current 'flavours' should be
> called 'subarchs', and the 'subarchs' should be called 'flavours', but that
> just sounds like a good way to confuse everyone...

Some arches use it like that, but others do not. 686/686-bigmem and
s390/s390-tape can't be called different subarchitectures.

> Otherwise, I can't think of anything better than 'featureset'.  Maybe
> 'variant'?

'variant' is part of flavour. s390 and s390-tape are two variants of the
same.

Bastian

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