On 8/9/06, Gary Feldman <dpal_gaf_devel@marsdome.com> wrote:
> Khalid B wrote:
> > Install profile is confusing .
> Part of the confusion is that, grammatically, it should be "Installation
> profile." (Nouns can be adjectives, and nouns can be verbed, but verbs
> can't be adjectives.)
>
> Installation profile works for me, but I prefer package configuration or
> package description. If the file will be *.profile, then package
> profile seems good.

The main source of confusion, to me, is that it is a term with historical
baggage, and its ambiguity means different things to different people.

Profile can be confused with Drupal's profile module as well.

Package seems to convey the right idea, and has no historical
use in Drupal.

package == something that can be installed.

apt == advanced package tool (or similar)

A theme is a package, and a module is a package and an engine is a package and an install profile/distribution is a package.

The dependency system (with the .meta files) being developed handles dependencies between all these packages (of different types)

I vote for distribution, it is very well suited for our meaning.. and the main reason we want 'install profiles' is because we want to build distributions.