Good explanation, but this should appear in the file...  I was confused
when looking at it too.

Regards


On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:45:20 -0400
Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> wrote:

> Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.apr.drei@onlinehome.de> wrote:
> 
> > I am confused by the contents of pkgsrc/doc/STATUS.
> > 
> > It first explains what 'supported' and 'fully supported' for pkgsrc on a
> > platform means but in the following tables those categories seem to
> > refer to single packages on different platforms.
> > 
> > What is the difference between 'supported' and 'fully supported' for
> > packages, eg audio/mpg123 (supported) and audio/xmms (fully supported)
> > on Solaris?
> 
> I agree that this may be confusing, and the current notation does not
> help.  Here is what I had in mind:  a platform is considered to be
> 'supported' if all the packages listed in the first table build,
> install, run and uninstall without problems.  Initially I had it look
> like this:
> 
> Package		Platform A	Platform B ...
> -----------------------------------------------
> abc		X			Y
> .
> .
> .
> -----------------------------------------------
> supported:	Y			N
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> The packages listed in this category pull in all the basic packages
> needed for non-trivial-but-not-too-complicated environment, so if all
> are fine, the platform is 'supported'.
> 
> So the list of packages you see are, in a way, a requirement for a
> platform to be labeled 'supported'.
> 
> For 'fully supported' more difficult packages are listed etc.
> 
> Does that clarify things for you?
> 
> -Jan
> 
> -- 
> DON'T PANIC!


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