[csw-maintainers] Packages with private /opt/csw/foo directory

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> This symlink, if I understand correctly, makes it impossible to have
> multiple MySQL databases installed at the same time, because
> /opt/csw/lib/mysql is "the MySQL database", which is something people
> were arguing against (notably, Phil).

I was?


> Either we have one default version of MySQL or we don't.  If we don't,
> the symlink shall not exist.  If we do, let's install one MySQL
> version into /opt/csw, and alternative versions (e.g. 4) to private
> prefixes.
>
> Thoughts?

I think the default should be done only via symlinks, or other
appropriate wrappers/pointeres to the "real" location.