[indiana-discuss] question on ss-dev cluster

[David.Comay at Sun.COM]

Matt,

> In setting up a system to test something, I needed Sun Studio.  I was
> aware of the ss-dev cluster, so I installed it.  To my surprise, it has
> the "sunstudioexpress" not the "sunstudio" in it's list of dependencies.
>
> Then after installing, I tried adding the package "sunstudio", finding
> it did nothing.  Only after digging into the details did I see that
> sunstudio is a cluster itself, depending on sunstudioexpress.
>
> Is all of this intentional?  Is this a placeholder waiting on
> redistribution of studio 12?

"sunstudio" was an early name of the package delivering Sun Studio
Express.  The current name is "sunstudioexpress.  Since we don't
current support a way of obsoleting packages, there are a number of
"empty" packages which represent older packages that have either been
renamed or EOFed.

dsc