On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <zx...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Calling it "gentoo" makes sense, because the entire tree is what makes > gentoo. But since it's namespaced in ebuilds/ and because ebuilds/ might > have other gentoo-official repos too, then perhaps "gentoo-main" makes more > sense.
The thing is, Gentoo is more than a bunch of ebuilds. Certainly they're a HUGE part of Gentoo, but they alone aren't Gentoo. In some sense you could have ebuilds/gentoo.git but then what happens when you clone ebuilds/gentoo.git, website/gentoo.git, and so on? Namespaces are useful to prevent accidental collisions, and for organization, but without getting too crazy with the names I think it is best off when the final name stands on its own reasonably well. It doesn't have to be gentoo-main, but I would prefer to see it not just be "Gentoo." -- Rich
