On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:08:23AM -0700, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 08/17/10 10:04 AM, Will Fiveash wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:58:21AM -0700, Shawn Walker wrote: > >>On 08/16/10 05:31 PM, Will Fiveash wrote: > >>>When I run: > >>> > >>>$ pkg list -uv > >>>pkg: no packages are installed or are installed and have newer versions > >>>available > >>> > >>>I find the first part of that message misleading as I do have packages > >>>installed. > >> > >>Look at the wording -- *or* are installed and have newer versions > >>available. There are two cases where you can get no results for > >>this command. Feel free to file an RFE or 'trivial' severity bug > >>with suggested wording. > > > >Yes, but my point is that pkg should be able to determine if there are > >packages installed, yes? Anyway, can you tell me where (and the > >components) I need to open the RFE with? > > I disagree that it has to since I don't think the user really cares > about the distinction and as you pointed out, you know there are > packages installed.
I, as a user, found the message disturbing as it made me wonder why pkg couldn't tell if there were packages installed. -- Will Fiveash Oracle Austin, TX, USA Internal Solaris Kerberos/GSS/SASL website: http://kerberos.sfbay.sun.com http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kerberos/ _______________________________________________ on-ips-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/on-ips-dev
