Stephen Hahn wrote: > * 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 >
The primary utility of the package name appears to be a compact way of specifying a dependency at a point in time, since w/ our current naming scheme no one usually knows which package contains what w/o searching for it :-). - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
