Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:14:45AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> 
>> Do we have a definition of what the package name can be?
> 
> Not specifically, that I know of.

So what should I limit the characters to?  What is a reasonable 
definition in your opinion?  Just add '/' to what I have for now?

>>>     application/vim
>> Oops.  Still, fmri.get_name()  should return just the name portion right?  
>> Since we already have fmri.get_pkg_stem()?
> 
> get_name() returns the name.  get_pkg_stem() returns the "pkg:/" scheme,
> the authority, and the name, unless asked otherwise.
> 
> The name is the entire packag name.  In my example above, that's
> "application/vim".  "vim" is just a terminal substring of the name (though,
> if unique, one that can represent the name on its own; see fmri_match()).

I didn't realise that.  Thanks for the explanation.

-- 
Shawn Walker
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