[csw-maintainers] CSWcswclassutils: it wants to write in /usr

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Fri Dec 11 17:51:19 CET 2009


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Gary Law <glaw at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 2009/12/10 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
>> A quick off-the-cuff solution:
>>
>> We declare that classutils implementations must be backwards
>> compatible. If you want to do something incompatible,you must do it in
>> a newly named class.
>>
>> Problem solved?
>
> Might be if there were no-one out there shipping identically named
> utils installing in the same place, who might just go ahead and
> upgrade thiers in an incompatible way. But there is.
>

no one else (who matters...) is going to be shipping any pkg class
utils named "cswxxxx".
our namespace is safe.



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