Brian Smith wrote: > > Your concern is that people will build packages with missing components if > the header files are missing. In the modern world, that doesn't happen. > Build-time configuration and end-users users building their own custom > binaries for their machines is an outdated model.
That is not universally true. In the Web Stack project we know of much interest in users creating their own custom builds. Build-time configuration is the norm for most of these components and there is a nearly unbounded set of combinations of config * components. While we (Web Stack project) strive to pick a set of build-time configurations most broadly useful, there can only be one set of binaries in the official package so there is no pleasing everyone. Many users end up wanting to build their own with local tweaks. Anything OpenSolaris tools (whether pkg directly or a helper tool isn't important) can do to make this as easy as possible is a big win. This is another reason to move away from the obsolete consolidation concept though. If the source to an individual component is not individually available, there's no practical way to make this work. -- Jyri J. Virkki - [email protected] - Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
