Rainer Orth wrote:
Shawn Walker writes:
Which means there needs to be a central registry to avoid namespace
clashes, no?
The way the naming scheme is setup, and if it is followed correctly,
namespace collisions should be rare.
This is more or less true for the package naming scheme, but doesn't say
anything about pathnames for the installed software. Are you suggesting
that everything (like Veritas, NetBackup, ...) be installed into /usr
instead of /opt? If not, there needs to be some way to control the /opt
namespace.
I was talking about package namespace as opposed to filesystem namespace :)
You'd have to ask an ARC member or someone else familiar with the
process what the plans are there. However, I suspect that, yes, in the
future most software will deliver to /usr as many are being moved there now.
With very few exceptions, this is about Sun software where clashes can be
avoided internally. It's not immediately obvious how this extends to
unbundled software.
These might help:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6941
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8123
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6186
Cheers,
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Shawn Walker
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