[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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