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
>


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