[csw-maintainers] OpenCSW Prefix

[Gary Law]

2008/11/1 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>

> >
> > And now I come to think of it, the dependency declarations are also going
> to
> > be impossible to reliably resolve if two organisations produce software
> > called CSWfoo, CSWbar...
>
> what is the problem?
> its not like someone would want to use both sets of packages
>

It's highly likely someone will intentionally want to use both. There are
already packages in one and not the other. And versions are different for
many things.

Equally concerning is that people will accidentally use both. If they change
mirror to the wrong upstream things won't work as they should. Users will
become annoyed when they find out why, and go back to downloading by hand
from Sunfreeware.

The whole point of using things like /opt/$NAME for directories and
prefixing the package name is to prevent namespace clashes ... I stand by my
opinion that both Blastwave and opencsw are going to look very, very foolish
if they both distribute into /opt/csw.

-- 
Gary Law
glaw at opencsw.org
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