> > SUNWgnome-img-editor at 0.5.11,5.11-0.111:20090508T155210Z
> The package names will be changed "soon"

BTW, there was method in this madness.  By the time we first
integrated GNOME into Solaris, we were already running the 3rd
window manager (sawmill -> sawfish -> metacity), also, various
libraries got merged or split all the time (gnome-libs -> libgnome*)
so we the idea was to simplify our packaging by using stable
package names that describe the functionality rather than the
community module name.  So {saw{fish,mill},metacity} became
SUNWgnome-wm and the various platform libs were still in
SUNWgnome-libs even after they were split in the community.
There was also a desire to reduce the number of packages delivered
(CDE was only a handful of packages) because SVr4 packaging
struggled under too many individual packages (because it had
to constantly rewrite /var/sadm/install/contents).

Laca, from the history department ;)



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