5 Oct
2006
5 Oct
'06
6:41 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 13:04 +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
Another thing which I (still) dislike a little bit are the inconsistent naming conventions of the few utilities managing the ports and packages. There is ports, prt-* and pkg*. The naming convention of prt-* utilities seems to be grown evolutionary as counterpart to apt-* of debian?
I agree that some of the utilities in prt-utils are less useful than others (e.g. prtcreate), and it'd be nice to see it trimmed down a bit.
The pkg* naming convention seems to have its roots in slackware and *BSD? The ports utility seem to have its roots in CRUX itself...
SunOS uses pkgadd, pkgrm, ... as their package management tools. They're much more bloated than Per's pkgutils, though.