Fair enough.

Follow-up question: What is the definition of "installable" as far as it
relates to "list-worthy"?

$ pkg list -avf SUNWlibatk
FMRI                                                             STATE      
UFOXI
pkg://joanmarie.homeunix.org/[email protected],5.11-0.127.1:20091121T050611Z 
installed  u----
pkg://localhost/[email protected],5.11-0.127:20091203T195739Z    known      
-----
pkg://localhost/[email protected],5.11-0.127.1:20091203T231157Z  known      
u----
pkg://opensolaris.org/[email protected],5.11-0.128:20091125T030327Z known      
u----
pkg://opensolaris.org/[email protected],5.11-0.127:20091111T090711Z known      
u----
[...]

The third item doesn't show up in PM or with pkg list -a. It is
installable however without my making any changes whatsoever. I just did
so via Web Install:

$ pkg list -a SUNWlibatk
NAME (PUBLISHER)                              VERSION         STATE      UFOXI
SUNWlibatk (localhost)                        0.5.11-0.127.1  installed  u----

--joanie

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 12:49 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
> Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > I am trying to understand why PackageManager should list packages which 
> > are not installable.
> > 
> > Given our current workload I cannot see us implementing your proposed 
> > RFE in the short term.
> 
> I agree, and I don't think this is something the GUI should change its 
> default listing to do.
> 
> If the GUI were to provide anything at all for this, I would suggest a 
> "Newest Package Versions" listing mode that just uses LIST_NEWEST 
> instead of LIST_INSTALLED_NEWEST.  I wouldn't do anything beyond that...
> 
> Cheers,


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