[csw-maintainers] Alternatives

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Mon Dec 07 13:14:53 -0500 2009:

> What if I have my own in-house built package?  It's going to use a
> different installation prefix, and all will be custom.  It will depend
> CSWalternatives and use it.

Ok, that'd be fair.  As long as you wouldn't be affecting, say, SUNW
packages with this mechanism, it's fair to allow it to interoperate
among packages that are aware of the functionality, I guess.

> We would restrict ourselves to /opt/csw, but it doesn't mean that the
> alternatives mechanism can be used only within /opt/csw, so it's not
> CSW specific -- in the sense that you can use for any package you
> want, CSW or not.  After all, it's just another program, which wasn't
> even written with Solaris in mind, not to mention CSW.

Ok. :)

Thanks
-Ben

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