On 7/20/05, Sunil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now that 8 character limit is not there, what stops us from having some > meaningful unique names for packages, which are really unique across > csw/sunw, so in future I install just one copy of a package and csw doesn't > go around downloading and installing it but just checks if it meets the > minimal requirements.
The name is not the only problem. Programs built for /opt/csw expect their libraries to be in /opt/csw/lib. The community will be working towards ways of solving this issue, but in the meantime, it's just not that simple. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org