Re: [webmin-devel] packaged vs local modules

[Jaldhar H. V. <ja...@de...>]

Apologies for the late reply.  I had to drop everything due to a heavy
work load.

On Tue, 2 Jun 2004, Jamie Cameron wrote:

> Having two root directories is neat, but may confuse some modules. A lot
> of them are written to assume that all module directories lie under the
> same root, and access files in other modules with paths like
> ../othermodule/somefile.pl . This could be fixed for the core modules,
> but may break third-party code ..
>

Shouldn't they be using defined APIs like foreign_call etc?  Then it would
just be a matter of patching those few functions in web-lib.pl

> I still think having one root directory is best, as long as there is no
> possibility of modules from .deb packages being overwritten,

and vice-versa...

> which seems
> to be the core problem here.
>

Also what about cloned modules?  Currently rpm and dpkg can't deal with
those at all.

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