Re: Removing SVR4_PKGNAME?

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Subject: Re: Removing SVR4_PKGNAME?
From: David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 16:36:32 +0000

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:34:43AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > In the past, SVR4_PKGNAME was a short name of five characters max,
 > used on old Solaris versions so that packages compatible with their
 > packaging tools could be created.
 > 
 > I haven't seen anyone talking about or adding these alternate names to
 > packages for a very long time, so I wonder if it's time to remove
 > them.

Yes, please...

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

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- Removing SVR4_PKGNAME?
  - From: Thomas Klausner

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