Darren Reed wrote:
For example, rather than use SMF FMRIs as the actuators
that do file assembly, why isn't that an integral part of pkg(5)?
Why isn't pkg(5) providing the file assembly through its own architecture?
Or maybe a better question is, why can't pkg(5) provide that?
a lesson to be learned from SVR4 packaging:
Sun actually provided what seemed to be a fairly useful class action: the
"sed" class.
As far as I could tell, it let you insert a chunk o' config, into an
existing configuration file (such as, oh lets say... /etc/inet/services! ;-)
and mark it as specific to your package.
However, almost no-one used it in their packages because:
1. Most people never even knew it existed
2. They didn't understand how to use it
3. it was stupidly named (see point #1 :-)
It would be very nice if sun provided a mechanism in IPS, that allowed for
[file assembly, or file editing like above], that was well documented, well
advertised, and appropriately named and placed.
_______________________________________________
pkg-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
