On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:47:25PM +1200, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> Unless I misunderstand it, not even directories can be shared by
> multiple packages?
Currently, they can; we didn't want to go to the trouble of removing all
duplicate directories from the WOS packages during the import.
I think we'll end up moving to a model where, within the WOS (and maybe all
repos on opensolaris.org), we end up with all directories delivered exactly
once, and put dependencies in place to make sure that directories are
available for packages to put their bits into.
However, policing this across all repos seems overy aggressive, for little
gain. The two biggest advantages are:
- consistent permissions (so pkg verify always comes back clean)
- if we ever decide to change those permissions again, it'll be much
easier
But unlike delivering the same path as two different filetypes, or
delivering the same path as two files or symlinks, we'll probably continue
to allow duplicate directories in the code.
Danek
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