Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:38:47 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base-c6 Makefile distinfo.i386 distinfo.i686 pkg-descr pkg-install pkg-message pkg-plist Message-ID: <20120422153847.GB93455@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20120422172749.00002a94@unknown> References: <201204220924.q3M9Oqtt023864@repoman.freebsd.org> <20120422145841.GA91683@FreeBSD.org> <20120422172749.00002a94@unknown>
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 05:27:49PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:58:41 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> > wrote: > > Why not name it `linux_base-centos6'? Isn't `c6' a bit vague? > > (FWIW, `-fX' for Fedora is also probably not the best name.) > > It was following the existing naming scheme (fedora-core was too long > for me back in the days when I was working on fcX). I don't object to > the longer names now, but everyone is used to the short ones now. Fair enough, sorry for the noise. I was looking at `linux_base-gentoo' and thought that while two-letter abbreviation for Fedora Core is generally recognizable, single `c' for CentOS might not. ./danfe
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