Hello Rene,

>From my point of view i agree with the renaming. since 2.4 is not used, at
least i removed it from production for quite some time.

Regards,

Iulian Demetrescu


> Hi Roger,
>
> On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Roger Mason wrote:
>
>> Hi Rene,
>>
>> On 14-Mar-12, at 8:22 AM, René Rebe wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I have a Request For Comment: Since the unforeseen version bump of the
>>> Linux kernel from 2.6.x to 3.x, ... our primary OS kernel package
>>> "limux26" is a little misnamed.
>>>
>>> If the rename would be easy, I would have long renamed the linux26 pkg
>>> to linxu3, ... but it requires touching much more than a dozen files,
>>> ...
>>>
>>> While thinking we should finally address this, I came to the conclusion
>>> I would like to delete the quite obsolete linux24 package, and rename
>>> the linux26 package just "linux".
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>
>>>     René
>>
>> I have no problem with this, but my response is, perhaps, naiive as I
>> don't understand what consequences there may be, if any.
>
>
> For one thing this was to find out if anyone screams about loosing
> "linux24" :-) A rename of the majorly used package "linux" means many
> other, e.g. architecture and target overloads, need to be adapted, etc., …
> not to mention shared file conflicts on user systems when they emerge an
> update which will clash between "linux26" and "linux", … though "linux"
> without number prefix is much nicer, matches to the "linux-header"
> package, … and is certainly nice in the long run.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
>  René Rebe, ExactCODE GmbH, Jaegerstr. 67, DE-10117 Berlin
>  http://exactcode.com | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de
>
>

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