On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jim Klimov <[email protected]> wrote: > > For that particular post, I needed to link with OpenLDAP because > the opensource project I was building was only written to work > with that API. As such, I needed the package to deliver maybe 30 > files to the build host and half-a-dozen to runtime hosts - not > five screenfuls list of docs, programs, config samples, manifests > and methods to hook into SMF, and other resources that are certainly > useful when I set up an OpenLDAP server as such.
This is what you're really after: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary You're saying that you don't actually want packages at all. It's always a tension, in that any package may be used in multiple ways (and in ways that the packager might not anticipate). Attempting to use conventional packaging to address every possible edge case will require much effort for little reward. (Although in this case I could see that splitting into a "client" and "server" package might make a lot of sense. Especially if the server had additional dependencies. But that's this particular case and doesn't cover the full generality of the problem.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
