Shawn Walker wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: >> As for Shawn's point about headers, I'd rather just always install them, >> rather than conditionally install them. Non-developers won't notice, >> and minimizers can always filter out any headers. > > I disagree. There are multiple benefits that all help different groups > of people: > > * Sun (savings on bandwidth, etc.) > > * Metered-Bandwidth Users (e.g. most of Australia, Europe, etc.) > > * Embedded and resource-constrained Users > > ...others. > > It's silly to install headers if you don't have any software that can > use them. > > Cheers,
Since both variants and facets are defined by the publisher rather than the client, publication and signing of manifests that contain such tags indicates acceptance/support of those variants. Ad-hoc client side filtering allows arbitrary removal of content from packages and thus violates support and signature boundaries. As a result, I think filtering should be an exceptional mechanism, not standard operating procedure; removal of header files should not require rendering system unsupportable. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
