[csw-maintainers] Dependencies on SUNW packages (was: newpkgs libslp1, openslp_devel)

[Philip Brown]

On 12/21/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> No dia 21 de Dezembro de 2010 17:12, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> We dont usually bother having SUNWxxx in depend, because they are
>> probably installed anyway.
>
> I assumed that not depending on SUNW packages was for a different
> reason, but I guess we never discussed it.  I thought that we don't
> depend on SUNW because, for example, /usr/lib/sparcv9/libz.so.1 is in
> SUNWzlibx on Solaris 9 and in SUNWzlib on Solaris 10.  If you depend
> on SUNWzlibx, you can't install on Solaris 10 because of an unmet
> dependency.

well I did say "usually " :) that's one of the other reasons.