On 10/12/09, 19:55:49, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] CSWcswclassutils: it wants to write in /usr:
> > If I had the solution I'd have made a suggestion long ago. I'm saying > > although I haven't complained myself I do support anyone else for whom > > it is an issue and I support the quest for an alternative. > ah. fair enough there. i wouldnt ever say "this is perfect, i'm going > to ignore any other proposals for alternatives". I would say that I > just want other alternatives to be *at least as good*. I define better as not writing to /usr. > > It might be possible to use the existing build/sed classes and provide > > developer tools that write the necessary code to work with those classes. > > I make ghostscript, groff and some others to install the correct paper > > size using request and the existing build class. I've no idea if the > > standard classes would work or if another technology is needed but as > > long as CSW needs to write to /usr there is room for improvement. > Well, there are probably some things for which we can use existing sun > provided classes. > But they ARE *very* limited. The build class runs the 2 scripts supplied in the package file so isn't limited. James. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
