On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:34:17PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: > >> It occurred to me that "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" might be better >> verbs. Are they flexible enough to convey what we want? Nothing about >> "publisher" needs to change, except for the subcommand names, I think, >> since you could say it makes sense to "subscribe" to a "publisher", >> rather than to a "subscription", which just sounds silly. > > To me, you would then be subscribing to a repository produced by a specific > publisher. The catch is that although there might be multiple repositories > that publisher produces, you can only subscribe to one.
I assume you mean that limitation is because of the language, and not anything technical. You could subscribe to a "repository", or perhaps even to a "stream of change", which is pretty much the terminology we were using two years ago. "Stream of change" is pretty generic, but perhaps too much so? Maybe not. Some related terms might include "pkg streams" as the command to list them, "related streams" could be other repos working in the same "universe" (to borrow another term that doesn't really fit), the release and dev repos are distinguished by "stream flow rate", or "flux", computed by taking the surface integral of the package field over a given set of consolidations. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
