Dan Price wrote: > On Wed 07 Jan 2009 at 10:20AM, Stephen Hahn wrote: >> So, included below, is the output of the renaming script for about 671 >> packages. It should be enough to trigger discussion. > > Does a package's occupation of a slot in the namespace also preclude > descendants? (either by convention of by proposed code changes?) > > That is to say, if system/font/x11 is a package, is it impossible (or > ill advised) to have system/font/x11/supplemental ? > > At a higher level-- how do I know what is a category versus what > is not a category? How much work do you anticipate we will put > into the tools around knowing that "/" is a delimiter? That is > to say, given "print/a2ps", would "pkg install a2ps" be expected > to work, assuming a2ps is unambiguous?
Which also brings up an interesting question, if the user specifies the name of a category, does that allow them to install all the items in a category? For example, "pfexec pkg install gnome2/games" ? >> gcc-dev -> 'feature/develop/gnu' >> GNU Tools Development cluster > > I think this is somewhat hard to understand. Perhaps preserving > some of the flavor of the thing in the last path element would be > nice: > > feature/develop/gnu-dev I'm not certain I follow this. Why keep the -dev? Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
