[csw-maintainers] hooks in pkg-get

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Am 10.11.2009 um 22:00 schrieb Philip Brown:

>> If the package does not function when [pkgadd'd directly], then the
>> package is improperly put together.
>
> Yes. And if the package has already been released like the old esound?
> Than what? Without hooks your doomed.
>

doomed, is a strong word :)
If one chooses to not use automated package management tools, then by
definition, one will be stuck doing more things manually.

However that does point out, that if a maintainer is tempted to try to
do "clever" things in a hook for mistake cleanup purposes, said
maintainer should instead implement this "cleverness" in normal
preinstall type scripts, so that it will work with straight pkgadd.

So.. if this applies to you, Mr. Michelsen, please RE-fix your esound
package ;-)