I think there are two approaches to choosing the base names of packages. It depends on whether you think Sun can create a sensible, comprehensive arrangement of packages are will be easily understood to someone who is not familiar with the UNIX OpenSource universe (Linux/BSD/etc). If you think Sun can do this job effectively (let's call this the Apple approach) then we should probably get some initial guidelines from a usability expert. Coming up with that set by crowd-consensus seems impractical. The other approach is to choose names that are logical to the people who create the packages, and logical to the existing users of those packages (most of whom are using those packages on Linux). If we take that approach then I would say we should take our cue from the way the same packages are named and organized in the popular Linux distributions. Everything that I've said above applies ONLY to open source projects that are NOT owned by Sun. There's no reason for Sun to mimic anyone else in the arrangement of SunOS packages, for example.
Just my .02 --chris _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
