On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Louis wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I've tried on the netbeans discussion mailing list but with no luck. I guess > this falls a little in the gaps between the two. > > In more general terms then, if Solaris packages are available in duplicate, a > set prefixes with SUNW and a set without, what's the difference between them > and which should be installed (or should both be installed, or are they > equivalent)? I guess this is a historical / transitional period for the > packaging system, rather than the long term intention?
Packages published by Sun have historically had the SUNW prefix. In general, if two versions of the same package are available you'd want to read up on the contents in order to determine which one you want or if you want both. Alok
