David.Comay at sun.com wrote: > Gary, > > >> And we should question every addition to /etc/*. New /etc/* files >> need justification as specified in the ARC SMF policy. >> > > I can certain appreciate the policy with respect to the bits of > software that are represent of core part of Solaris but I don't agree > it should apply generally with the large number of FOSS components that > are being merely aggregated from upstream communities. It's important > that the familiarity of these components across multiple OS platforms > be maintained in *most* cases. There are, of course, exceptions here - > putting executables in /etc seems wrong in all cases - but for the most > part, I don't see an issue with new components delivering files under > /etc unless they're interfering with other components (/etc/security > might fall into this case but that didn't apply with this particular > case.) > I'm not sure I'd agree.
While for things in home directories might need this to enable homedirs to be shared between more than one platform, I don't think the same applies to things local to the system. Personally, I'd like to see these things put through the Sun/Solaris engineering thought process. Too often in the OSS world things get done without much consideration to how they fit into the larger scheme of things. I'd hate to think we just pulling this stuff in without giving it the same consideration we give to things that originate in Solaris. -Kyle
