> That's not quite correct. SXDE went away because we wanted to focus on a > single binary distribution (though SXCE continues due to the necessity > for building self-hosting OpenSolaris kernel).
That makes sense. OKay. >> So think of it as a future looking Solaris OS type product. >> >>> Also, why you name packages with prefix SUNW? Most peoples look for gcc, >>> for example, but can't find it. May be more user-frendly name packages >>> as most of us expect? >> >> Because SUNW was the old Sun Microsystems Stock symbol I guess. Also >> because every package in the Sun Solaris product inventory that goes into >> Solaris has a name of SUNWfoo for some foo. This means that the dependency >> tree for SUNWfoo may include SUNWbar which may also have a dependency on >> SUNWwoo. Therefore no one wanted to reinvent the where and thus all the >> packages in a Project Indiana or OpenSolaris Binary product release will >> have packages named SUNWfoo and SUNWbar and SUNWwoo. That is my guess. > > Package refactoring and renaming will happen at some stage in the future - I > don't know the exact plans for that, but you're right, it doesn't make too > much > sense to have the SUNW prefix anymore. That information will be maintained > within the package metadata. cool. I hope that someone books a room at a mental hospital for whomever gets stuck with that nasty job. >> Over the last few days I worked around the clock with Angelo Rajadurai to >> get as much software into an IPS style repo for people to use. The process >> is flawed and it tends to break easily. We don't know why. We can install >> packages from the repo to an Indiana user. Sometimes. There is no >> facility >> for post install or pre-install scripts and we may have to just create our >> own solution to address that. > > Looking forward to this :) Sometimes one just needs to hack forwards. At the moment I need to stop everything and rethink. I also need to get samba released or people will find me and kill me :-O I promised that over a month ago. whoops Dennis _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
