Martin Man wrote:
> Stephen Potter wrote:
>> Consistency is good.  I hate the linuxy verbose package naming system
>> of -devel.  I would love to see u (user), r (root), h (header), m
>> (man), s (share) and the few other package types used consistently.
> 
> I can guess what -devel does, but I can't see what 'r' and 'u' are, 
> thanx for explaining that m = man and h = header ;-) Are we still in 8.3 
> world? Probably, with half of the filename being eaten by SUNW ;-)

User packages, for example SUNWcsu, install files under /usr.
Root packages, like the corresponding SUNWcsr, install elsewhere. /var/ 
/etc /sbin /lib etc.

Diskless client is one thing that relies on having the packages split this 
way. I think zones also takes advantage of this.

oh and the longest filename in s10 seems to be 
SUNWgnome-img-editor-devel-share at 33 chars :)

Cheers,
~Albert

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Albert White - Patch System Test - Sun Ireland
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