On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Danek Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:18:26AM -0700, Kuldip Oberoi wrote: > > Also, do we have nomenclature guidelines for packages, empty package > > used to tie together 1 application, empty package to define a software > > bundle, etc.? > > Incorporation is the term we've been using, though it may be overloaded, > depending on how nuanced you need the terminology to be. I've also been > using "cluster" when talking about the parallels with svr4 packaging on > Solaris, but I'd like to stop at some point. > > Danek
Things close to this topic keep coming up. I would like to suggest the notion of meta packages delivering "features". Features can be versioned, and more importantly they can be advertised. See http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/2008/03/solaris-wish-list-feature-based-meta.html for details on my thoughts. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
