Re: Distro name

[Andreas Enge]

Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:

> And merry new year! :-)

 

Thanks, happy new year to all the guix hackers!

 

> The (distro ...) name for modules of the distro wasn’t meant to last.

> Initially, I thought we could find a name for the distro, and substitute

> that name to “distro”. Possible names:

> • Jinn, as in “Jinn is not Nixpkgs/NixOS”;

> • Guixotic, as Guix + Exotic (suggested by RMS).

 

Bike shedding, marvellous!

 

> However, I’ve come to think that we don’t necessarily need a separate

> name for the distro, but we do need a name for the module name space.

 

Do we need a namespace "distro"? So far, there is only the sub-namespace "distro/packages". Could this not be contracted into the very prosaic "packages"? The distro would then simply be called "guix", no?

 

Maybe "gig" - "guix is guix", or "gis is gig", a recursive acronym with an exponential growth (to make fun of terminal recursion) and a certain zen appeal :-)

 

Andreas