On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 12:50:13PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> On 5/7/20 7:32 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> > On 5/6/20 3:55 PM, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:44:55AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> >>> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 01:45:34PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, 6 May 2020 07:37:35 -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> >>>>> Good idea and I think it would be a smart thing to do.
> >>>>
> >>>> I generally agree but I don't think "ark" is the best option. The
> >>>> kernels are used for Fedora, too, and they will be used for RHEL. We
> >>>> should find a prefix that works for all of those kernels/distros.
> >>>> I was trying to think of something but I could not find anything
> >>>> suitable. It should be short (rules out "downstream") and easily
> >>>> remembered (rules out abbreviations for "downstream").
> >>>
> >>> I had the same opinion.  As we migrated the redhat/ over directly from 
> >>> RHEL,
> >>> it is very much polluted with RHELisms.  I am happy to clean up the
> >>> RHELisms, I would like to use a generic term that covers
> >>> Fedora/CentOS-stream/RHEL/ARK.
> >>>
> >>> I had thoughts of using 'distro' and using that as a generic framework to
> >>> push upstream for other distros to plug into, but I never fully flushed 
> >>> out
> >>> that idea (ie s/redhat\//distro\//;s/rh-/distro-/).
> >>>
> >>> Though 'distro' is a tad cumbersome.  'os' may work as it is short enough
> >>> (using Prarit's suggestion) but is it intuitively descriptive enough?
> >>>
> >>
> >> 'dist'? I like the shortness of os, but as you say it's not super
> >> descriptive. I don't have strong feelings either way, though.
> > 
> > dist would work too.  jbenc?  dzickus?  Anyone else before I push a patch?
> > 
> 
> Since there isn't a strenuous objection to 'os' (although I do like 'dist' 
> too),
> I'm going to go with 'os' for the sake of brevity.

I will throw my hat in the ring for 'dist' over 'os'.

Cheers,
Don
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