On 01/20/10 10:10 AM, John Rice wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
On 01/20/10 03:06 AM, John Rice wrote:
This question has come up before but I have not had a definitive answer
from anyone:
We have a package classification schema in opensolaris.org.2008 (used by
the PM GUI to support package category browsing) and the new
hierarchical name space for all our packages.
Is there any reason why these two schemes cannot be made to match each
other as closely as possible so people looking for packages on the CLI
and PM GUI will have some sense of consistency? We own both and not
doing so will just be a real source of confusion for users.
An example of an inconsistency would be Applications/Internet, whereas
the name space is using web/, changing to Applications/Web would bring
the two into better alignment.
The namespace intentionally uses lower case characters, and
classification entries can contain whitespace and many additional
characters that package names can not.
Packages can also have multiple classifications, but only a single
namespace entry.
Sure but neither of the above comments preclude us making best efforts
to keep the classification and namespace as close together as possible,
so a user looking at a new namespace name would have a good idea which
category to find it in the GUI.
I agree that it would be nice for them to be reasonably similar.
However, the GUI users most of the time would not know the package by
its full namespace entry, correct? Wouldn't they know it by its
classification and the unique part of its package stem?
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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