[***SPAM***] Re: [Nix-dev] Patching uname in stdenv?

[Michael Raskin]

>Anyway, this would be breaking a feature of uname, namely that ‘uname -r’ 
>returns the kernel version.  Users would find it very surprising if they're 
>running a X.Y kernel and uname returns something different than X.Y.

Actually, maybe it is not worth the effort to have two unames - my 
point is only that it has benefits and the only obvious drawback is time
to implement (so I wonder whether there are other)