[indiana-discuss] scope (was Re: ZFS to the max)

[Alvaro Lopez Ortega]

Doug Scott wrote, On 03/07/07 04:54:
 > Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
 >> Peter Tribble wrote, On 02/07/07 20:44:
 >>
 >>  > One thing that hasn't been addressed is whether Indiana can
 >>  > use the SUNW package prefix in the first place?
 >>
 >>    I suppose that it would be fine as long as they are compatible [1].
 >>    In fact, I would encourage it for the sake of compatibility.
 >>
 >>    1.- So the new question would be, how to ensure they are compatible.
 >>
 > I think Peter was asking whether Sun would (or can) allow OpenSolaris to
 > use SUNW as this always has been used to tag a package as part of a Sun
 > product. Another question is will there be a 1-1 mapping between current
 > Solaris packages and Indiana packages? i.e. Indiana could break some of
 > the larger packages into smaller packages to give the end user more
 > choice of what is installed on their system.

   My understanding if that, if there isn't a *very important reason*
   for breaking compatibility, we should definitely going for remaining
   compatible.

   There is something that has surprise me in this community: It
   underestimate compatibility, and I can't still figure out the
   reason.

   That is one of the huge problems of Linux. We should have learned
   the lesson.

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Greetings, alo.