andrew wrote:
> That then leads to the question "why did they not just name the sendmail
> package SUNWsendmail so we could see at a glance what it contained?"
Because sendmail was added to Solaris so very very long ago that
package names were still limited to 9 characters - with 4 taken
up by SUNW, and one by the user/root suffix, very many abbreviations
had to be taken.
Part of the IPS transition plan is a massive package renaming and
refactoring, to more usable names and package boundaries.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
