[csw-maintainers] [POLICY] Shared library placement proposal

[Peter FELECAN]

Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> 2011/2/5 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
>> To me, "libraries [..] should be kept in [...]" implies that "the
>> actual library, ie: the file" should be kept in...
>>
>> That would need to be cleared up, to explicitly allow symlinks.
>
> Doesn't the word "should" imply that in well-grounded cases a
> different approach can be used?

As a assiduous reader of RFCs I'm used to make the distinction between
*should* and *must*, i.e., should = recommended but optional, must =
mandatory. If everybody agrees that we keep this meaning then the
proposal is satisfactory. Probably a meta-policy defining the usage of
terms would be a good addition for clarifying the interpretation of
policies.
-- 
Peter