[csw-maintainers] [policy] files/dirs in /var/opt/csw

James Lee james at opencsw.org
Tue Jan 18 17:45:42 CET 2011


On 18/01/11, 12:49:25, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote 
regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] [policy] files/dirs in /var/opt/csw:

> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM, James Lee <james at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > But it's already decided.  In fact the /var/ issue was previously set
> > by the reverse.  The previous policy was to support NFS, this already
> > implied no /var files via prototypes, so I'm unsure why the issue was
> > revisited from the /var end.

> Maybe it implied no files in /var but it sure wasn't enforced,

Lack of enforcement doesn't make it correct.  It does show no one
cares or no one bothered to complain.


> even
> pkg-get from Phil himself delivers files to /var.

Even Phil could have it wrong.

[Note, it's /var/pkg-get not /var/opt/csw]



James.


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