request for information: p1003.2(?) Bills of Materials

[David Collier-Brown]

From: davecb at yunexus.uucp (David Collier-Brown)

   I wonder if anything significant has changed since the August 1987 (!)
draft pertaining to bills of materials.
   I note that at that time the BOM files resided in /usr/lib, and
the structure seemed limited to vendor-provided utilities, not
"layered products" or third-part products.  And I note that the 
System V "install" procedures seem directed toward vendor-provided
utilities.

  Has any consideration been taken of the large (indeed, **very** large)
number of third-party products that one would normally install using
a common mechnaism, but in a non-system directory hierarchy.

--dave (who follows the standards more in the breach...) c-b
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Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 14