On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Bart Smaalders<[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: > >> If the packaging system is so inflexible that administrators are unable to >> define or implement the policies they need to, they have several options, >> including (a) being miserable, (b) violating the packaging system by going >> behind its back, (c) using a different packaging system. I'm not looking >> forward to living in such a world. >> > > Should all portions of a package be optionally installable?
Yes, why not? > In other words, should IPS support options to omit files > from installation by regular expression? I hadn't though of it quite like that, but again, why not? > You seem to want to treat packages of software as a development > kit, to be edited and changed as desired. This is a fine idea, but > rather different than the publisher had in mind. Fair point, and probably not that far off the mark. But underneath all this is the fact that the original developer/publisher pretty much has to choose one standard use case - I wouldn't expect every package to understand every single possible use to which it might be put, so what I'm looking for is the ability to let the package define the best behaviour for the common case, while allowing for different use cases. >> I've not completely explored the full range of options that facets would >> allow, >> but does it allow the installation of any particular facet without any >> other >> component of the package being installed? In particular, if documentation >> were a facet, would I be able to install the documentation on its own? >> (This >> is something I do all the time, so I can access documentation locally on >> my >> desktop where it's nice and snappy.) > > No. If you want to do this, we should publish the docs in separate > packages, and reference them as faceted dependencies. A single group > package (the equiv. of SUNWman today) could bring them all in. This is > likely the direction we'll head anyway, since it greatly facilitates > publishing. OK, thanks. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
