[csw-maintainers] Shared library placement proposal

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>..
> If mysql or berkelydb or any of the other special packages were moved
> to --prefix=/opt/csw in full at the next update, it would immediately
> invalidate your current use of 'du -k' and that is a perfectly viable
> thing for a maintainer to do.

I completely agree with that. I am perfectly fine with that.

My only point is that, when a package *IS* split off into its own
subprefix, it should at least be consistent about actually Being In
The Sub-Prefix.

Any deliberation about "*Should* package X have its own subprefix?" is
completely free from any entanglement with "du", in my book.