Darren J Moffat wrote:
I'm trying to understand what we actually gain by having any more complexity than just repository as the terminology and I'm not sure I get it yet.
Because a repository alone isn't sufficient to express the identity of of the packages contained within (e.g. there could be a large difference between libfoo from abc co. and libfoo from xyz co.), nor is it sufficient to provide a mechanism whereby a user can easily 'override' one package provider's packages with their own.
The additional complexity beyond publisher and repository (stream) is necessary because of the concept of being able to switch between 'development' and 'release' software trains where package versions alone are not sufficient to express software release types.
Thanks, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
