[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> 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.

I would vote +1 for /opt/csw/jdk and /opt/csw/jdk, because that is 
nearer to what Sun does, but I won't try to veto a hiearchy with more 
consistency under /opt/csw/java :)

>> /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
> :-/

Great!

How about configuration files? Are they going under /etc/opt/csw to?

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Trygve