On 4/5/08, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Thank you Shawn. > > > -- > Shawn Walker > > "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - > Robert Orben > -- Amit Kumar Saha *NetBeans Community Docs Coordinator* http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com http://amitksaha.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
