[csw-maintainers] package hooks

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu Jun 25 17:13:19 -0400 2009:

> http://wiki.opencsw.org/package-hooks

[Leaves URL included...]

> "The package tools shall pass, at most, a single argument to each hook that
> is run. "
> I think putting arbitrary limits on that, is unneccessary, and possibly
> harmful. It's usually better to define a MINIMUM set of arguments that is
> passed, but allow room for future expansion.

The point with that was to make things a little more rigid, but I've
altered the language as you suggest.  I also added some thoughts (in
the same section) about stdout/stderr from hook scripts.

> Hmm... was going to comment on something else, but will think about it a
> bit more first....

Fire when ready.

-Ben
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