Re: schema definition precedence

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Andrew Thomson wrote:

> unfortunately a developer made the following change to core.schema and
> relies on it.

He is an idiot.

[...]

> I'm happy to setup a local.schema file with his changes in it. However
> can I leave the NAME as is and just have it override the previous class
> defined in the core.schema??

Pick a local name (and get an OID as well - they're free).

> Or do I have to change the NAME in my local.schema and get the
> programmer to update his code to use my new objectclass??

Get him to fix his code, then break his kneecaps.  Never, ever, change
a standard definition.

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