Philip Brown <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Peter FELECAN <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... >> If we can provide directories then files are alright also. >> > > I dont see how that follows. > directories are almost zero-content. They can be recreated at will > with zero special knowlege. > Whereas files actually have unique content, so they are impossible to > recreate, without special knowlege of the proper contents.
For me creating directories is as complex or simple as copying files. It depends on the context. >>... >> 1. to say this explicitly in our policies with all the strings and >> bells needed by such an use case. >> >> 2. a standardized mechanism to propagate all the stuff created by our >> packages on the NFS client's /var/opt/csw. > > I think these are excellent ideas. > > To some degree, we do have 'use cases' for #1 documented, but they are > a bit more geared towards user perspective, and I presume you mean > more from a maintainer perspective. Right on point. In the policies we need a maintainer perspective to obtain an usage result. -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
