ipkg vs. opkg

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Thu Jul 31 16:41:37 CEST 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:14 -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> > Personally, I have no issue with opkg being around, I fully support that
> > and its great to see. I'm not so happy about the .ipk -> .opk name
> > change.
> 
> I guess it's mainly a question of "don't change a running system" versus
> consistency then. I don't have a strong feeling about either choice then.
> Am I right supposing that the name "ipk" is free from legal entanglement ?

Yes, "ipk" itself as a file extension doesn't have any problems I'm
aware of.

Cheers,

Richard





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