PSARC/2008/494 GNU emacs

[Garrett D'Amore]

David Comay wrote:
>> Emacs will be delivered in four packages:
>>
>>      SUNWemacs
>> 	Core distribution, containing all files necessary to
>> 	run emacs, but not including the actual emacs binaries.
>>
>>      SUNWemacs-el
>> 	Uncompiled LISP source files (.el), of interest to emacs
>> 	programmers only. The compiled versions of these files
>> 	(.elc) are included in the core SUNWemacs package.
>>
>>      SUNWemacs-x
>> 	Emacs binaries built with X11 support using the
>> 	Athena (Xaw) toolkit. This package installs emacs
>> 	as /usr/bin/emacs-x.
>>
>>      SUNWemacs-nox
>> 	Emacs binaries built as a pure tty based program, without
>> 	any linkage to the system X11 libraries. This package
>> 	installs emacs as /usr/bin/emacs-nox.
>>     
>
> I'm OK with these names although I should point out that most if not
> all of the *recent* additions of "official" GNU software have chosen
> names of the form SUNWgnu-<whatever>.  I think it would be worthwhile
> to be consistent here (the same would apply obviously to
> SUNWemacs-gtk).
>
> Longer term, it's my hope that we'll do some renaming anyway or support
> some sort of aliasing of names so users don't need to even worry about
> the "SUNW" prefix or even the "SUNWgnu-" part.
>
> dsc
>   

I thought IPS was steering folks away from knowing those names anyway... 
e.g. I run "pkg install firefox", not "pkgadd SUNWfirefox".

    -- Garrett