[csw-maintainers] An idea for a shared libraries policy

[James Lee]

On 28/09/10, 10:05:08, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote regarding 
Re: [csw-maintainers] An idea for a shared libraries policy:

> > These packages are only used as dependencies so the naming doesn't
> > have
> > to be appealing.  No user should need to directly install a run time.
> > They should even be in the list offered to users, only the top level
> > names should be, like jpeg, python.

> I guess you mean "They should NOT even be...". Very true.

Correct.  Sorry, brain and fingers not connected.



> This would
> solve one other issue: The JRE can be thought of as a runtime, which
> we can not deliver right now as it is not "bundled" with another
> Java-package that uses it. "Hiding" some packages from pkg-get/pkgutil
> would solve this.

Yes, it's a presentation thing.
Like the pkginfo flag CATEGORY: system|application.




James.