On Fri 18 Apr 2008 at 03:12PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> > I didn't think we had a state called "Not Installed"?  Stephen had
> > some very precise opinions about this, see bug #1168.
> 
> Not about this particular state.  I think "Not installed" is about as
> user-friendly as it can be.  I could say "Known", or "In catalog" as
> pkg-states.txt might dictate, but I think that either of those would be
> confusing to most people.

In my mind that just brings us back around to my original idea that
Stephen objected to, to say to the user:

        Installed: Yes

Or

        Installed: No

And then have other additional state information (broken, damaged, etc.)
on another line. :-/

        -dp

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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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