[OE-core] [PATCH 01/38] *-basic: rename to *-standardlinux

[Mark Hatle]

On 2/24/14, 11:00 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:38 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> On Monday 30 December 2013 12:59:26 Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> On Monday 30 December 2013 09:35:18 Robert Yang wrote:
>>>> I'm afraid that the standardlinux maybe a little confused with
>>>> linuxstdbase, bu I don't have any better idea about it.
>>>
>>> You could be right. I've thought for a long time about renaming this and
>>> haven't been able to come up with anything better. On the other hand, in our
>>> current configuration we are actually using the basic/standardlinux
>>> packagegroup as part of our LSB images; although that might not be the
>>> right thing to continue doing - LSB probably ought to be independent.
>>>
>>> FWIW, let's consider this particular patch as RFC, maybe someone else has a
>>> better idea of what to name it. I am very much convinced that "basic" is not
>>> the right name though.
>>
>> So, has anyone got any better ideas for the name of core-image-basic and
>> packagegroup-core-basic?
>>
>> The idea is that these are meant to contain things that you might have on a
>> more traditional or full-featured Linux system. Somehow "-traditionallinux"
>> doesn't really work either.
>
> "fulllinux"?
>
> "linuxcmdline"?

I've resolved this naming conundrum in the past by simply having a document that 
explains what the name means.  "basic - basic command line utilities"

I agree basic isn't the most descriptive name, but I'm not sure what is.

--Mark

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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