On 4/7/08, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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;
I am not sure what that would mean :-( Please let me know! we'll do more renaming and refactoring as we start using the > hierarchal packaging name space system/kernel/ ... Cool, can I participate? I would like to know what kind of work it would require to be able to contribute to this refactoring process. Also, I see some packages now with 'FSW' prefix, do they mean "FreeSoftware ported to OpenSolaris" ? Thanks, Amit -- 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
