[Distutils] packaging terminology confusion

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John Gabriele <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only inconsistency, I think, is that operating systems like Debian
> refer to their software distributions as "packages" (as in, a packaged
> up piece of software that you can download and install). "Packages" is
> a great name for them -- too bad it's already being used in Python.

I believe that's basically where the confusion comes from.