[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 20510 - viric - in nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/pkgs: development/libraries/acl development/libraries/attr development/libraries/gettext os-specific/linux/uclibc tools/misc/coreutils top-level

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey!

Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/3/10 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:

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>> I don’t think there’s any other case where an attribute name can refer
>> to different packages, as ‘libc’ in this case.  Usually attribute names
>> correspond to the implementation name (e.g., ‘inetutils’, ‘nettools’),
>> not to the feature provided (‘ifconfig’).
>
> We have something called "linux". I'm thinking of getting linux 2.4
> in, for cross builds.
> And I have something similar with "uboot", between the usual upstream
> version, and that of the sheevaplug (forked long ago, and having
> difficulties to get merged into upstream).

Sure but these names refer to implementations.  The parallel would be to
replace ‘linux’ by ‘kernel’, and ‘uboot’ by ‘bootloader’.

Anyway that was just a picky remark about style.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.