Re: Removing SVR4_PKGNAME?

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Subject: Re: Removing SVR4_PKGNAME?
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:56:56 +0200

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.

Since there was no disagreement on this point, I've now removed this
variable from pkgsrc.

Related: Is pkgtools/gensolpkg still useful nowadays?
 Thomas

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