On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 13:47 -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> The world we want to want to move away from is where everyone delivers
> their own copy of something, which is slightly modified from the next guys,
> has different bugs, etc, etc. See, for example, the thousand-and-one
> copies of chk_update_drv() in drivers' postinstall scripts. Or bugs where
> packages have delivered outdated copies of i.manifest.
Perhaps the way to get there is not by making it impossible to do this
incorrectly, but rather by making it easy to do this correctly.
In other words, rather than make it impossible to include code within a
package which is executed during the installation of that package, make
it easy to depend on mechanisms delivered by another package.
- Bill
