On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:54:54PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:36:16AM -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > >>In most cases, I believe the preference would be to deliver the file in > >>fragments and provide SMF services to assemble the files (as in the > >>prior paragraph) rather than encoding that many actions into the > >>packaging system. > > > >Understood, but for common, editable files I think IPS actions would be > >better for the simple reason that that should help avoid code > >duplication. > > SMF services would do the same thing, assuming they're made public > interfaces (they would be useless if they weren't, IMHO).
True. One could easily adapt my SVR4 scripting -> IPS prototype to do just that. Heck, finish it off, qualify a few CAS, and ship it. Or, if that's too ugly, then write a new one that works on similar principles but uses something better than existing CAS (e.g., SMC tools like smprofile(1M)). Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
