Shawn Walker 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. >
As Shawn points out, we're importing the svr4 pkgs right now... and the small IPS team just hasn't had time to begin a general package refactoring, although it is on the must-do list. You may well notice that we have already combined the root and user pkgs; we'll do more renaming and refactoring as we start using the hierarchal packaging name space system/kernel/ ... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
