Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] What about the distributions?

[Eric B. <eb...@cy...>]

laszlo kovacs wrote:
> 
> I dont know if this breaks Eric's principle of doing the same thing by
> make install when is run for package creation or when it is run for
> install.

It's not *my* principle ;-).

> For Solaris we would still need post install scripts.

Sure, on every system you would need them, should it be RPM, DEB,
slackware or anything else.

You would need them, unless the browser is able to work with partial
databases.

> I would
> go for either post install scripts or partial databases, but we should
> keep it simple, so I dont like the idea of using different approaches
> for different package formats.

Who speaks about that?

The problem with any distribution (Solaris or other) is that "make
install" is not run on end-user's machine. Therefore either you merge
the partial database that you obtain after "make install" into a bigger
single database during the post-installation, either you simply copy
this partial database during installation and hope that it will work
with many small databases instead of a big one.


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