[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs py_webpy

[Philip Brown]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Sun Jan 23 22:34:26 -0500 2011:
>
>> pkg-get -D webpy
>>
>> would indeed show it.
>> (-D for Descriptions)
>>...
> I don't have pkg-get handy here, but from what you say it looks like
> the argument to -D is a catalog name, as it would be found in the
> catalog?

no, descriptions.


I think Peter copied pkgutils -describe option from it.
At any rate, they do the same thing.

and pkg-get -D takes regexes.


> My point here is that if you want both naming consistency (good) and
> installation by friendly name (also good), you can have that by
> packaging under the standardized format and providing stub packages
> with the friendly name.  I don't see a problem with stub packages but
> I do see a gain from using them where appropriate.  To my eye, this is
> an appropriate use.


Mmmm... but from my perspective, having a view of the entire system
from all layers, it feels... wrong.
Might almost be better to support some kind of proper 'aliases'
mechanism for the catalog instead. dunno.
Needs to be pondered on.