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
