David Comay wrote:
>> Emacs will be delivered in four packages:
>>
>> SUNWemacs
>> Core distribution, containing all files necessary to
>> run emacs, but not including the actual emacs binaries.
>>
>> SUNWemacs-el
>> Uncompiled LISP source files (.el), of interest to emacs
>> programmers only. The compiled versions of these files
>> (.elc) are included in the core SUNWemacs package.
>>
>> SUNWemacs-x
>> Emacs binaries built with X11 support using the
>> Athena (Xaw) toolkit. This package installs emacs
>> as /usr/bin/emacs-x.
>>
>> SUNWemacs-nox
>> Emacs binaries built as a pure tty based program, without
>> any linkage to the system X11 libraries. This package
>> installs emacs as /usr/bin/emacs-nox.
>>
>
> I'm OK with these names although I should point out that most if not
> all of the *recent* additions of "official" GNU software have chosen
> names of the form SUNWgnu-<whatever>. I think it would be worthwhile
> to be consistent here (the same would apply obviously to
> SUNWemacs-gtk).
>
> Longer term, it's my hope that we'll do some renaming anyway or support
> some sort of aliasing of names so users don't need to even worry about
> the "SUNW" prefix or even the "SUNWgnu-" part.
>
> dsc
>
I thought IPS was steering folks away from knowing those names anyway...
e.g. I run "pkg install firefox", not "pkgadd SUNWfirefox".
-- Garrett
