Antony T Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" wrote:
>>
>> Go for RUTABAGA. It's cute.
>
>We cannot use -APPLE, -APRICOT, -CHERRY nor -ORANGE or some company
>would get very sour...
>
>But there is -BANANA, -PEAR, -GRAPE, -NECTARINE, -TOMATO, -MELON,
>-STRAWBERRY, -RASPBERRY...
>
>Or maybe more exotically, -DUREN, -LYCHEE, -RUMBUTANG, -STARFRUIT...
I think as long as we specifically avoid -LEMON things will be fine.
Personally I think the idea of all this name changing is silly. I was one
of those newbies to this list not very long ago and I once asked those
questions "why is stable not stable?" If we go mucking about with the
names, we're certain to be asked questions like "Okay, is -RAISIN the
patched -GRAPE?" and "Why do you call it -BANANA? Why not just call it
-RELEASE?"
I think a version of FreeBSD which incorporates only patches that can be
applied BOTH by CVSup and by simply adding patches one at a time, which
seems to me is what the RELENG_4_3 branch is trying to do, is the same as
applying any other system patch, and doesn't deserve a rename of the base
OS. All that will do is for certain confuse scripts that use 'uname -a'
to determine the installed OS.
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