Laca:

 > I don't know the background of this question, but:

I was just asking why the SUNWGlib, SUNWGtk, and SUNWgnome-base-libs
packages are all in different categories when you go to packagemanager.
Then we got to wondering what the packages are actually used for.

>> The Dekstop team does not own the SUNWGlib or SUNWGtk packages.  I am not
>> really sure what they are for.  They may not be needed in an OpenSolaris
>> environment, but someone would need to check with whoever owns them.
>> I believe Laca might know more about these, so I have cc:ed him.
> 
> They are glib 1.2 and gtk 1.2 and they are not part of the slim_install
> cluster, so they are not installed by default.

Right, but we were wondering what the pacakages are used for, and who 
delivers them.  Do you know?

> With regard to SUNWgnome-base-libs, it would make sense to split it into
> individual packages per community tarball to follow the IPS packaging
> conventions.

Part of the reason why we initially put multiple upstream modules into
packages like this was because the package names are typically listed
as "Uncommitted".  Packaging like this gives us some freedom to add or
remove modules without affecting the package naming so much.

I am guessing these sorts of ARC concerns are just not such a big deal
now, or moving forward.  Is this the case?

Brian

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