[indiana-discuss] "no scripting zone" and isaexec(3C) == architectural

Shawn Walker swalker at opensolaris.org
Thu Jun 4 14:34:52 PDT 2009


Nicolas Williams wrote:
> I myself am not sure where third-party pkgs should install into.  FOSS
> could always be integrated directly into OpenSolaris via the
> consolidation process, or perhaps via /contrib, in which case it will
> end up in /usr -- to me this argues for third parties packaging FOSS to
> install into /usr, and I'm not sure why non-FOSS should be treated
> differently in this regard.  Right now I lean towards third parties
> installing code into /usr.

Which is why I believe it belongs in /usr.  Again, I have no idea what 
ARC has or has not decided beyond the serendpituous discovery cases, 
etc.  All I know is that the reasons stated for moving stuff from 
/usr/sfw, etc. seem equally applicable regardless of who provides the 
software.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker



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