Shawn; Shawn Walker schrieb: > The package names will be changed "soon", you can see a preview of them > here: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/attachment.cgi?id=2144 > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6186 > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8123
Thanks for pointing me there; this seems indeed quite an improvement. :) > As for package versions, those are going to be changed too in many > places to reflect the underlying software. Most of what you see with > the package names and versions reflects older practices from the > previous packaging system. Yes, that's what I thought comparing "older" Solarises with the IPS packages. But maybe changing these things indeed is a longer, slow-running process, same as eventually setting up a blastwave repository that doesn't provide another libgtk+ and another libgnome and a whole load of packages which are in "core" OpenSolaris already. Once in a while one (=me) tends to forget, here, that most of the GNU/Linux packaging systems have virtually been built from scratch with no need for backward compatibility in any possible way which just doesn't seem the case for (Open)Solaris which has been around for quite a while... :) K. -- Kristian Rink http://pictorial.zimmer428.net # kawazu at jabber.org "What was once thought can never be unthought." (Duerrenmatt - 'Die Physiker')
