On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:

> I expect to seem them because that is the standard Sun has set forth
> for package naming.
>
> Whether you think they "obtrusive, ugly, or whatever" is a subjective,
> personal opinion.
>
> The perceived benefit they currently provide is:

Well, the perceived cost is that I will *never* be able to say "pkg  
install php5", I'll have to know where it comes from.   On Debian/ 
Ubuntu, I can just guess and it works half the time.

But it doesn't seem like a big deal. -T
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