UNIX admin wrote: >> with IPS, future package names can have '/' >> characters in them, so that >> we can >> present a logical naming hierarchy. >> > > That is simply awesome, but if you do, please, pretty please with sugar on > top, don't "reinvent hot water", resp. don't "reinvent the wheel"... and use > dots, like everyone else: > > eoe.sw.eoe > ssh.sw.ssh > ssh.sw.man > ssh.sw.... > > Sometimes, the Sun engineering "NIH syndrome" is really a bitter pill to > swallow. Even for us loyal old timers. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Haha... SGI IRIX package naming convention. Just last month reinstalled this unit I have here (Yes I still use it, and it's still very useful) and remember how many little tiny stupid files were required for just the base system. Three files per package.
James
