On 03/24/10 02:56 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:22:56PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: >> On 03/24/10 02:09 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> That's fine with me, but you need to fix the "Committed" value for your >>> package names -- clearly they are not Committed, since you know you'll >>> be changing them soon. >> >> Package names should be no less than Committed, especially now that >> IPS can refer to a package using an older name. Since package names >> are how package dependencies are built, and how software is bundled >> and installed, anything less than Committed doesn't make sense to >> me. > > I thought IPS supports pkg renaming, so why should pkg names be > Committed?
Package names should be Committed because package names are how packages refer to one another in dependencies, and how tools describe what software is bundled into higher level constructs such as distributions and images. The fact that IPS easily allows a package to be known under a new name while preserving the old one (for the reasons I just stated) doesn't change that. I don't want to turn this perl case into an IPS discussion, so please contact me offline if you want to discuss this further. -Seb
