Alok Aggarwal wrote: > 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. >
Note, though, that this will not be the case for very much longer. The coming package refactoring will include renames to be less cryptic. Dave
