OpenDS Integration into OpenSolaris [ LSARC/2008/691 FastTrack timeout 11/19/2008]

[Gilles Bellaton]

James Carlson wrote:
> Gilles Bellaton writes:
>   
>> Our intention is to deliver in the non WOS of OpenSOlaris as described 
>> here :
>> http://wikihome.sfbay.sun.com/spe-re/Wiki.jsp?page=Indiana_docks
>> So in a way similar to netbeans and glassfish
>>
>> We were thinking that /opt would be the appropriate location for such a 
>> delivery.
>>     
>
> There's an interesting architectural question underneath this.  At one
> point in time, /opt was used for Sun-delivered projects (even possibly
> co-packaged or bundled ones) where there was an expectation that there
> could be more than one such implementation, and that users might have
> to choose which one they want.
>
> That's what exiled the compilers to /opt; not just that it was once a
> separate paid-for product, but that you could get Solaris compilers
> from multiple places/vendors.
>
> Now that we're mainstreaming FOSS stuff directly into /usr, do the old
> rules about /opt still apply?  Do any rules about that old segregation
> still apply?
>
> I suspect that the same arguments that work for the old, abandoned
> /usr/sfw experiment may well apply to things that would have been
> rightly destined to /opt.  Unfortunately, we don't have precedent for
> this.
>
> Should /usr prepare for /opt refugees as well?
>
>   
This looks a generic question to me that may need to be handled outside 
of this case.

As for OpenDS, I believe we can adapt quickly and move to /usr if this 
is the direction
that is chosen.

Gilles
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