On Dec 11, 2007 3:21 PM, Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > Because you haven't yet said that the libraries would be named any > > differently. > > A little research would help in this case, to see what the actual > libraries are named. > > Installing a different library under the same name would be pure insanity.
Exactly; but it seems the world is full of insanity. I was wanting to be certain that a version of Qt4 that was built against stdcxx would be named differently to prevent conflicts with "standard versions" that were not. > > Every point I have is simply discarded with the argument that you know > > better, things will happen differently, and that I'm wrong without any > > reasonable explanation. > > I believe there are better things to do than argue over something that you > really don't seem to have looked into at all. I think there are better things to do than make false claims. Two people can "look into" something and come to different conclusions. I *have* looked into the issue and obviously my conclusion is different than yours. Perhaps it's because I've been using GNU/Linux systems since 1996 (at least) so I'm well aware of where a lot of open source software gets delivered by default. > > Please show me a study proving this. > > ???? That software not being in /usr is the biggest problem Solaris has. > > Many still default to /usr/local. > > Really, like which ones other than Sunfreeware that you don't need to > change the target location when you build? Like many of the dependencies that KDE depends on; I know I've been building them! > > As long as the name is different, fine. But I still think your > > attitude of "screw everyone I know better" stinks. > > I've not said I know better than everyone else in this case, but you're > bringing issues up that have been batted around in the Solaris community > before you booted it. The fact is that software is now moving to /usr > (i.e., /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/etc, /usr/lib, etc...) and you're > proposing to hold it back and keep things out of /usr. This is the exact > mess (Open)Solaris has been plagued with for years. This is system > software afterall, it belongs in /usr. No, the fact is that *Sun* is moving software *they distribute* to /usr from various directories. No mention in *any* ARC case or proposed documentation update that I've seen indicates that the recommended guidelines are changing for 3rd party software delivery. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
