[indiana-discuss] scope (was Re: ZFS to the max)
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Mon Jul 9 10:35:48 PDT 2007
Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> There are hundred of cases like this in pkginfo, it is very common to
> find packages with 4 or 5 characters as abbreviation of something, and
> even some of them doesn't have any vowel.
Yep - the package name length limit expansion from 9 characters (leaving
only 5 for package name after SUNW takes 4) to the current 32 was only a
few years ago, and lots of packages haven't been updated to take advantage
of it.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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