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. > You can get a sample of the proposed naming scheme here: > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~richb/package_rename-v4/packages_by_old_name.txt 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. Rainer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
