On May 5, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 05/ 5/11 08:15 AM, Rinaldo DiGiorgio wrote: >> >> On May 5, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Alan Steinberg wrote: >> >>> Hi Rinaldo. >>> >>> Having the same pathnames in multiple packages violates a basic packaging >>> rule we have had in place for a very long time for Solaris. There have been >>> very few exceptions to this rule. >> Not asking for one. :) >>> >>> Why must the files be in both packages? >>> I think the correct thing will be to create a separate package with the >>> common files. >> In this case we have a development package that includes items in the >> runtime package due >> to a previous convention. let me see if I can undo the convention. > > If both packages need the same files, that would seem to indicate that the > runtime package should be a dependency of the development package. That is what I thought but the "developers' have been condition to have a separate version of the runtime package and I am trying to understand how disruptive this would be to developers, do they make changes to the runtime in the development package for testing and development and expect to have the system runtime unmodified? > > -Shawn
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