Bart Smaalders wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> Bart Smaalders wrote: >>> We're working on getting everyone involved in changing their own >>> config file handling in Nevada. >> >> ...which is fine for Sun's software, but it isn't going to be >> practical to change all FOSS software to do what it should. >> >> How do we deal with bad software? >> > > FOSS software developers generally don't write postinstall scripts. > Existing packages need to be ported...
A lot of FOSS software just doesn't deal with configuration file management at all, so many distributors do it for them in the package scripts. Still, we'll see what happens... Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
