Dan Price wrote:
On Wed 15 Jul 2009 at 08:57PM, Shawn Walker wrote:To enable administrators and users to effectively manage the packages contained within an image, users need to be able to define, on a per-publisher basis, what the behaviour of the packaging system and clients should be in the following key areas related to licenses:* filtering Administrators and users need to be able to define a policy that can be used to determine what packages are delivered into an image based on licensing information defined in packages.I believe you that someone might need this, but I have never needed the ability to accept or reject packages based on their license.
One possible benefit is for employers that want to enforce a specific policy for development libraries. Libraries with certain licenses should not be installed without specific approval (for obvious reasons).
One bit of comments I was expecting from you was anything surrounding zones. In particular, I was wondering what your thoughts were about having some sort of generic mechanism to specify the policies and image attributes we want to inherit from the global zone during zone creation?
I think it might have some future, applicable benefit for user images too, so perhaps it is worth pursuing?
It doesn't have to be part of this proposal though. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
