/run/current_system/sw/ -- What does "sw" stand for?

ivanbrennan · February 2, 2020, 3:10pm

What does “sw” stand for?

/run/current-system/sw/

I always just assumed it meant “software”, but is that true?

Infinisil · February 2, 2020, 4:37pm

We recently had a small discussion on IRC about it, these were suggested:

It’s probably system-wide, but who knows

ivanbrennan · February 2, 2020, 4:51pm

Hah, system-wide hadn’t occurred to me, though neither had secretary of war

Mapybara · February 3, 2020, 1:18am

It’s up to us, isn’t it? It should definitely be secretary of war from now on.

worldofpeace · February 3, 2020, 3:11am

I rebuke any notions of war in NixOS internal technical terminology .

lilyball · February 3, 2020, 3:16am

Clearly it stands for Serious Witchcraft

Mapybara · February 3, 2020, 3:31am

Yeah, I agree really, we should not promote war.

ryantm · February 3, 2020, 6:01am

Maybe @armijn can tell us, since he knows the dark and murky past

armijn · February 3, 2020, 11:07am

My work actually predates this and is from a darker past, so I cannot help here, sorry.