[indiana-discuss] question on ss-dev cluster

[Matt Ingenthron]

David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>
>> 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.
>   

Thanks for the explanation.

- Matt