Brian Smith wrote: > Any headers/libraries for any Solaris and OpenSolaris release, for any > architecture, should be easily installable into under my home directory > using IPS. And, I should be able to do that while ensuring that no headers > get installed under /usr. And, I should be able to easily do a "pkg > image-update" to update my system without disturbing the header files and > libraries I am building against.
Ok; you can construct user images and install whatever packages you want into that image w/o problems. We still need to do some work to make that seamless, but the idea is there. pkg image-update works already this way, and can also be used to update your user image... > This seems to imply that all headers and libraries should be separate > packages, and the installation of any package should not automatically > install the headers and other development files needed for that package in > any circumstances. > Hmmm... I would argue that libraries and headers go together rather directly; they're a matched set. Having headers separate from libraries doesn't make sense, I think. If you don't want headers installed in a system, set the facets appropriately. You can compile against headers, but you need libraries to link against... - 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
