[desktop-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] New project: JPack - install your software easily !

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 01:02 +0100, Michal Pryc wrote:
> > I don't like the way it strips the SUNW prefix off the package
> > names. This makes it very hard to see what's actually
> > going on.
> This was Idea that Alberto Ruiz bring up. For "normal" users SUNW
> doesn't mean too much, and having a lot of packages that begins with
> SUNW make GUI less redible. I left CBE* and CSW* packages. The idea was
> to remove prefix and add in the Information tab icon or info telling
> what type of package it is.

Hmm... the SUNW is part of the package name, it's also what the
pkg commands expect, so I agree with Peter that it should not
be stripped.

> > Checking gid=0 from the output of id isn't necessarily
> > accurate as a check of whether the user can install
> > packages.
> Prototype :-) Normally I should check for each packaging system,
> different thing (like "Software Installation" user attribute for CBE)

It's not specific to the packaging system.  Users with the
Software Installation profile can run pkgadd/pkgrm via pfexec,
no root access needed.

Laca