[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:26:25PM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
> Philip Brown wrote:
> > I think that in this case, we should toss out what sun does, and start with
> > our own CONSISTENT naming, that can stay consistent pretty much from now
> > until forever :-)
> > 
> > (JAVA_HOME=/opt/csw/java/{pick-your-version}, where version can 
> >    also be "default")
> 
> I'm all for consistency and my point was really "just because sun does 
> it". By not inventing *yet* another way to find the Java runtime we're 
> saving some brain cells.

ok... I think you're saying that you're ok with the above "consistent"
strategy, so I think I am counting 3 "votes" in favour of the above, and
none opposed so far.


> /opt/csw is already a
> pretty decent mess if you ask mere. Stuff is no where near self 
> consistent or similar to /etc, either Solaris or other distros.

I do agree that in certain areas, our packages are inconsistent. and I
think that we should all be 'encouraged',and encourage one another, to
clean things up.

I for one, will be "cleaning up" my very old and ugly apache1 package, to
finally adhere to the proper standards, of
  "writable stuff belongs in  /var/opt/csw/pkgname, NOT /opt/csw/var"
and so on.


But that will take a large amount of work, so it's waiting for next weekend
:-/