On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Amit Kumar Saha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Why is every package name prefixed with a 'SUNW'?

Because Sun's official previous policy on package naming was that
creators of packages used their company stock ticker to ensure package
names were easily identified and unique.

Now, it is because the existing packages in Indiana, etc. are imported
from Solaris Express builds that still use the old naming convention.

It will go away eventually.

-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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