* Laszlo (Laca) Peter <laca at sun.com> [2006-12-14 11:12]:
> Let me open a can of worms, or a couple of them (:
> 
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 07:55 -0800, Dermot McCluskey wrote:
> >         Package Names
> >         =============
> >         SUNWbison (unchanged)           Committed
> 
> >         SUNWbisonS (unchanged)          Committed
> 
> I suspect that the purpose of the SFW source packages was to satisfy
> the GPL requirement of publishing the changed sources and build 
> environment.  Is that still relevant now that everything is published
> on opensolaris.org?
 
  I am trying to get the current policy reexplained because I, too,
  think it needs changing.

> >         SUNWsfman (unchanged)           Committed
> >         SUNWsfinf (unchanged)           Committed 
> 
> Again, I know this has been like that since the dawn of SFW, and it
> was obviously modeled from SUNWman.  But I would argue that
> if we create separate Solaris packages for each GNU package, then the
> place of the manual pages is in those packages, together with the
> artifacts that they describe.  Same goes for info docs.

  Yes, I think I agree with this, too.  The bundle-up-similar-items
  packaging algorithm appears to have more drawbacks than advantages.

  - Stephen

-- 
Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/

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