On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:55:44PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > >As for the system/library vs. library/ issue... I agree: what is the > >distinction between the two? If there is none, then why do we need > >both? > > One way of viewing the distinction would be components used by users,
But users don't use libraries (developers do, and the apps users use do). > applications and user services to components that are implementation > details or perhaps tied heavily to the system and reflect private > interfaces (to some extent). So a library involved with "storage" or Implementation details of... what? Surely an implementation detail of something in /contrib does not belong under system/library, right? > "dynamic reconfiguration" might be under system/library while a general > event library or something to manipulate PNG files would be under just > library. Ah, so "implementation details of the core operating system". That's fine with me. But what is in the "core" will vary over time. Is OpenSSL in the "core"? Would we always have said that it was? This is one reason why it helps to make pkg renaming easy! :) :) I have no good answers either :( Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
