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

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Feb 24 23:01:25 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 17:00 +0000, 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 think I'm starting to lean to simply "cmdline"...

Cheers,

Richard




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