> andrew wrote: > > That then leads to the question "why did they not > just name the sendmail package SUNWsendmail so we > could see at a glance what it contained?" > > Because sendmail was added to Solaris so very very > long ago that > package names were still limited to 9 characters - > with 4 taken > up by SUNW, and one by the user/root suffix, very > many abbreviations > had to be taken. > > Part of the IPS transition plan is a massive package > renaming and > refactoring, to more usable names and package > boundaries.
I would have thought that when creating an IPS package for the first time, it would be generally a good idea to make the package name more meaningful if converting an old SVR4 package with a short name, especially fiven this distro is aimed at new Solaris users. Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
