Ah, I didn't catch the link to the wiki. (I was just looking at the
OpenSolaris forum post listing all the packages.)

It might make sense to add a legend to the wiki page, for those of us that
do not know what the different sources are.

E.g. - what is the difference between sfe and sfw?

Thanks,
Brian

On 5/1/07, Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at sun.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Brian Gupta wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to add a verbose option to list all instances
> > of the packages? (Since you crawling all the trees anyway.)
>
> Brian,
>
> If I'm understanding right, it is verbose (does list multiple instances)
> already. In other words, your example, a2ps...
>
> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/BuildRecipesReference#a2ps
>
> ... has just one instance, sfw, but that's because sfe, gar, jds,
> pmpkg, and ccd don't have a2ps (or if they do, they call it
> something else).
>
> A better example, I think, would be the sudo entry which
> lists four instances:
>
> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/BuildRecipesReference#sudo
>
> Also note that one main limitation of this project, as mentioned in my
> original post, is that it does not include instances for which only a
> binary package (no build recipe) is available.
>
> Eric
>
>
> >
> > e.g.:
> > * a2ps: An any-to-PostScript filter.
> >   * sunfreeeware.com
> >   * blastwave
> >   * /usr/sfw
> >   * ccd
> >
> > (Please note, I did not check where a2ps actually exists. It is just an
> example.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Brian
> >
> >
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