>> In the sprit of the coreutils case, I'd like to suggest
>> SUNWgnu-readline.
>
> On the other hand "coreutils" might be more generic than "readline" and
> thus require the "gnu" prefix.  Are all the /usr/gnu cases going to be
> SUNWgnu-XXX?

That's a good question but I though one of the values of naming it such
was to more easily identify that this is one of the GNU-based
packages.  Otherwise, I don't have any strong preference.

>>>       /usr/gnu/lib/libhistory.a               Uncommitted     Static library
>>>       /usr/gnu/lib/libreadline.a              Uncommitted     Static library
>>> **FIXME** presume shouldn't deliver these, even though SFWrline did?
>>
>> Agreed - we shouldn't be shipping the static variants.
>
> Is there utility to doing so because it's a GPL library?  The ARCs have
> historically encouraged project teams insistent on using readline to link
> it into their objects statically, and this would make such a thing easier.
> I'm not sure if it makes as much sense under the present circumstances,
> though.

I could see that if we were delivering this as /usr/lib/libhistory.a
and /usr/lib/libreadline.a.  But since we're putting it in /usr/gnu for
now until a general decision is made on such libraries in /usr/lib, it
seems delivering just the dynamic version is fine.

dsc

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