On 03/21/11 06:27 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
> It was believed that it shouldn't be applied to all editable files -- just 
> those
> editable files that packages had also explicitly allowed custom delivery for.
> 
> This was done because there are some editable files for which delivering a
> custom version is not appropriate, such as the device files in /etc, like
> /etc/minor_perm, and so on.

Ah, so you want to allow it for those which SVR4 would have called editable,
but not those it would have called volatile (i.e. types "e" & "v" in the
prototypes/pkgmap).

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-        [email protected]
         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

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