* Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> [2008-12-23 08:02]:
> I posted on December 16 about just this.  I prototyped the start method
> for a service intended to run those SVR4 packaging scripts that can
> reasonably be run that way (with proper env, and everything): CAS and
> post{install, remove}.
> 
> That'd be a big hammer: blunt.  But it will get the job done of
> _automatically_ migrating much SVR4 package scripting, with manual
> migration to less blunt solutions done asynchronously.
> 
> So... is it worthwhile?

  It will be, eventually--don't toss your prototype.  The point of
  providing the less blunt/more desired tools first is to force
  migration of the packages we have as part of the distribution.  The
  larger set of packages that exist outside the distribution might very
  well need a service like yours, but I'd prefer to extract known common
  operations first, as we did with drivers and users.

  - Stephen

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