On 11/20/2009 12:46 PM, William Case wrote:
Hi; As I get ready to upgrade/install to F12 an old curiosity question comes to mind. Fedora now has several programs it has packaged with the designation 'Kit'. PolicyKit, PackageKit and FirstAidKit come to mind. I assume it just means a bunch of programs, libraries and dependencies bundled together. However, I have never actually seen a definition of a kit. Has it ever been formally defined? Is it a Fedora/RedHat thing or is 'Kit' used more generally. Don't get me wrong, I am not objecting. In fact, I think adding 'Kit' to a bundle is descriptive and memorable. If there is a definition or at least a clear understanding of what a 'Kit' means its addition to a name can be that more informative. I was just wondering.
It's a cute use of the word. According to the most appropriate definition in Webster's that I can find, a "kit" was a basket or similar thing to hold tools relevant to a specific task. By extension, "kit" also refers to that assortment of tools. It's also commonly used to refer to an assortment of parts that, when assembled correctly, become some mechanism or process to accomplish a specific task or set of tasks. Or, as I used to say about my old Jaguars, "Ooh! There's a nice bit of kit!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Never put off 'til tommorrow what you can forget altogether! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
