* Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-26 19:24]:
> All the useful information is in package metadata.

  Not really.  The metadata is an incomplete precis of the executable
  components the package includes.  The executable components, examined
  statically, incompletely represent the set of states that could be
  reached during their actual execution.

  The package name is just a summary at a third remove.  That summary
  can carry useful information that can be used to defer or simplify use
  of the full metadata, which in turn allows us to defer or simplify use
  of...

  - Stephen
  
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
_______________________________________________
pkg-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss

Reply via email to