JL> Naively I expect 'pkg list' to list packages, 'pkg info' to give JL> information on packages, and 'pkg status' to give status on packages.
Danek> The design center is that each of these verbs operates on a package Danek> argument, but performs the same action on all packages if no argument Danek> is given. Danek> Thus "pkg list" lists a package. What does that mean? It lists Danek> the contents of the package (and the contents of all packages if no Danek> packages are specified)... Although I follow the theory of your design center, in practice, any command which does the equivalent of 'find /' is not user-friendly. Also, by way of contract, things like `zfs list`, `zpool list`, `zoneadm list` merely list the items in a set, whereas (at least for zoneadm) `info` is used to go into more detail about that item in the set. -- John http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
