* Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-20 19:43]:
> When using IPS for user images on non-Solaris platforms for software 
> that is unrelated to Solaris, the .org.opensolaris,pkg name for the 
> local meta data repository seems a bit too OpenSolaris specific.
> 
> How about changing this to just ".pkg"?
> 
> The code could be changed to still recognize .org.opensolaris,pkg if 
> there is a directory by that name there.  But it would only create new 
> user images with the .pkg directory.
> 
> This change could be done only for non-Solaris systems, but it isn't 
> clear that having this variation between platforms would be worth the 
> extra complexity in code, documentation and usage for cross-platform users.
> 
> Thoughts?

  The reason to choose an extended name is to avoid conflict in an
  unmanaged namespace.  If we're just talking about appearance, I'm not
  that interested in a change:  image packaging is developed at
  opensolaris.org.  Is there a technical issue on one or more platforms?

  - Stephen

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