On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:45 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> Doing that will be problematic for a different reason though.  Namely 
> only a single package should (and eventually can) deliver the directory 
> structure, so instead of being able to have each package deliver its own 
> directory, you will have to have a single master "source package" that 
> all source packages are dependent on that delivers the entire source 
> directory structure if *any* of the source packages are installed.
> 
> That doesn't seem so nice :|

Hmm... actually, I think a restriction like that is what is not so
nice ;)

Unless I misunderstand it, not even directories can be shared by
multiple packages?  I think that will be a nightmare to enforce
even within OpenSolaris, and I can't see how you can enforce it
across package repositories.  I can understand if you want to
keep the directory attributes consistent.  SVr4 packaging does
that too.  But what are the advantages of going further than that?

Laca


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