On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-26 19:24]: >> All the useful information is in package metadata. > > Not really.
We're talking about package names. My statement might have been better phrased as "you cannot derive useful information from the name of a package; you have to look at its metadata". (That's not to say that package names should be made incomprehensible to humans - a package named perl is going to mean more than calling it h5f4dew321, but all the useful information about what the package can be used for is contained in metadata, not the name. All the namespace needs to do is generate unique names, so bare "perl" isn't really enough, you need to fully qualify it to discriminate between multiple possible instances of perl.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
