On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:13:58PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > It SOUNDS like, from what has been said recently, that this [shunt to SMF] > approach, might make it possible. I'm still waiting, however, for someone to > explicitly confirm, "yes, the stuff shunted over to SMF, will be able to do > ANYTHING, with no restrictions". > > This has not been explicitly stated. it would be reassuring to see it > explicitly stated.
Yes, it's code: it can do *anything*. Nothing whatsoever can prevent that. But the packaging system can (and will) explicitly disclaim any responsibility for what it does. If it's not a reversible operation, then that fault lies with the packager. Part of our documentation will include what we consider to be sane and reasonable things to do with such a service, and we'll likely have plenty of examples in the WOS, but if you choose to leave the reservation, you'll be able to do it. You just won't be able to do it in precisely the way you used to, and you'll be constrained to doing it in only one well-defined context, which should simplify life for the packager trying to construct a well-behaving package. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
