* Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> [2019-11-16 14:49]: > > Alfred M. Szmidt <a...@gnu.org> writes: > > > I also don't think that shepherd is a better name, dmd far better > > describes the intent Wolfgang and I had when we wrote and designed it. > > It wasn’t our decision to rename dmd to shepherd. I liked “dmd” too. > > > Infact, most of the commands now make little sense... > > Could you please elaborate? They are just “herd > {start|stop|restart|anything…}”. > > -- > Ricardo
Here it is how it was renamed, Guix developers proposed it, Stallman approved it: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00274.html