Alberto Ruiz wrote:
2007/6/26, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
> I think SUNWCreq may actually be more than we want. Does anybody know
> how big it and all of its dependencies is?
To reinforce the "may be more than we want point", here's the graph
Glynn posted:
http://www.gnome.org/~gman/metacluster-cluster-mapping.png
If we are seriously thinking about making solaris more appealing to
linux (and any) users, we should seriosly rethink the way we name
packages. For me, any of those package names means absolutely nothing (I
know SUNW because I like stock market issues, but I think this SUNW
thing is also redundant and meaningless for most people).
The SUNW is a namespace thing - it lets different groups create packages
without having to have a central registry of package names - Sun could
have a SUNWweb-server while Apache produced APCHweb-server and they
wouldn't clash.
As for the meaningfulness of names, the names really were cryptic when
the package name limit was 9 characters, and a lot of those old names
live on still - you can see GNOME took full advantage of the expansion
of the package name limit to 32 characters just before it was integrated,
and many newer packages have followed suit.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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