On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:27:12PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Next (but sadly not final) set of comments on the proposed renaming:
> 
> SUNWj6rt                              system/java6
> ...
> 
>       Besides the question of whether "java" things should be under
>       system, why "java6" instead of "java-6" as the latter seems
>       more aligned with the versioning we're doing.
> 
>       Rather than having "dev-tools" (and its -64 cousin) under
>       <whatever>/java6, perhaps it should be under the top-level
>       "developer"?

Runtimes for languages are hardly just for developers, ergo they belong
in system/ while pkgs specifically for developers belong in developer/.

Of course, such a purist view means that one has to look in two places
in the pkg name hierarchy for closely related pkgs.  Not good.  But then
again, I don't think this problem is avoidable except by having aliases.

As for the system/library vs. library/ issue... I agree: what is the
distinction between the two?  If there is none, then why do we need
both?

Nico
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