[advocacy-discuss] IPS terminology

[Diane Plampin]

You bring up a good point.

I've forwarded this to docs-discuss to make sure the writing community 
sees this.

Terminology is the hardest part of a writer's job (user interface 
designers and other roles too).





Philip Torchinsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is indirect question for this mailing list, but it is related to 
> advocacy: we need to use terms as correct as possible everywhere to 
> allow everybody understand us.
> 
> There is a phrase in OS2008.05 Getting Started Guide (both in print 
> version and on the web site, see 
> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/ggcph.html, 3rd paragraph):
> "An image is a location where the packages, their files, and their 
> corresponding actions can be installed. An image acts as an IPS client, 
> which interacts with the package depot server."
> 
> What is "image" here actually? How it does correspond with "boot 
> environment" term? The sentence means we can install packages, files and 
> actions to an image, right? How I can install an action? Shall we 
> specifically emphasize that the kernel is a package as well (and I can 
> easily update kernel with pkg image-update)?
> 
> Philip
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