[indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] Imagine Prototype #2

[Tim Bray]

On Nov 22, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:

> As a user, I would expect to see the SUNW, FSW, and SFE before package
> names.

I think it's ugly and obtrusive and I haven't seen yet how it helps  
me as a user.  Other package-management systems seem to get by by  
calling things by simple unprefixed names.  It's perfectly possible  
that I'm missing some obvious benefit, though; what is it?

  -T