On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 09:45:38AM -0500, Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) wrote: > Are there any guidelines regarding when to use a facet vs. when to use > another package? > > I've been assuming that facets are intended to represent general > characteristics that many packages have, such as locale, demo, > development, and documentation. > > But something like an optional protocol handler for pidgin would be a > separate package rather than a facet. > > Is that right?
That seems reasonable. But until we get some real-world experience with facets, we're probably not going to be able to give you any more solid guidelines. > If so, are the allowable facets going to be standardized? I would expect that there will be a standard set, but that you'll be able to create new ones at will (with Sun packages going through an audit that would limit facets to the standard set). Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
