On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:38:17AM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > Finally, I'm also not convinced that the current automatic directory > path search is the best idea either. As such, I'd like to suggest the > following: > > The process would be, *if* -R or PKG_IMAGE wasn't already set: > > * check for a ~/.pkg5rc or /etc/pkg5rc > > * pkg5rc does not exist; assume '/'. > > * pkg5rc exists, open that, and get paths for images > > -- If any paths were listed, then whatever path is most specific to > the current CWD is the image pkg(1) would use, otherwise it would > fallback to '/'.
Far simpler: require an explicit option in order to operate on images other than /. Make / the default image. Yes, that's an admin-centric point of view. > That would allow users to easily control the behaviour (with little or > no surprises) in combination with the existing -R / and PKG_IMAGE > environment variable. Users who know enough about user images and the CLI can be expected to use an explicit option (because they can be expected to RTFM). All other users will never have any surprises (since either they will be using the GUI, which could make the choice of image explicit and inescapable, or else they won't manage user images at all). Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
