On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Alexander Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Danek Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 06:26:48PM +0200, Alexander Vlasov wrote: > > > > > > > It means all of them should deliver /usr for quite obvious reason: > nobody > > > > knows which packages would be installed on particular machine. With > > > > 1,000,000 installation someone will definitely end up with /usr > erased. > > > > And "some" is not an answer anyway: absolutely clear condition should > > > > exist. It should be either one package (and everybody should depend > on it > > > > somehow, maybe implicitly) or all of them who have any objects under > /usr. > > > > > > I'd much rather have the former. > > > > > > > > > > I tend to agree with Danek here. Rather than duplicate information > > about the /usr directory in thousands of packages, it makes sense that > > it would be defined by one base package that is guaranteed to be > > installed. > > > > > Excellent. Please name this package, check if all base directories are > really there and let's write this decision somewhere. It would be really > nice.
I'm not the person with the answers to that question. For the reasons already discussed, having every package deliver all of the possible directories doesn't seem like the right answer, but I don't personally know what the right answer is. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
