Vasiliy wrote: > I talk to Bart and he raise serious consern about installation in $HOME or > any shared area (he asked me to post it here). Home directories srared over > network and can be accessible from any architecture and any Solaris Version. > So instalation of software in shared area need special attention and special > procedure to make it multiplatform.
No arguments about the existence of the issue. However that is for the created or the software and the packages to fix. For example Firefox assumes a single architecture/platform and allows you to place binaries for the plugins in your home directory. This is completely independent of where and how the firefox binaries themselves are stored. There is a workaround available set and environment variable to say where the plugins are. BTW this predates even Mozilla as a project if I remember correctly. I've seen other software that writes out binary files and has basic endianness issues. None of these can be solved by the packaging software. > I think that Shared Software is another big project. In my opinion it isn't a project at all it is just about good design of the software in the first place. SunOS has long encouraged the separation of binaries from sharable this is what things like /usr/share are all about. I don't see how the packaging tools can actually help with this at all. -- Darren J Moffat
