On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Shawn Walker<swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Shawn Walker<swalker at opensolaris.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> As for OpenSolaris distributions that don't embrace IPS; I think they >>> will >>> be at a severe disadvantage, but I'm biased :) ?I'm also of the belief >>> that >>> third-party vendors would rather use a supported packaging system >>> published >>> by Sun. >>> >> >> Anything commercially supported will indeed be followed, and should >> indeed be followed, by vendors of software. Sun, however, need not be >> the only provider of such support, and IPS need not be the only such >> supported packaging system. >> >> As you should be aware (since you're writing from an @opensolaris.org >> account), there is value in exploring alternative formats in an open >> and community friendly manner, please let us community distros do >> that. > > Sure, there is plenty of value in exploring alternatives. ?*However*, some > software will only be legally available in an IPS package repository. ?So > users will be at a disadvantage. >
Not really.One possibility for other distros that use other alternatives is to provide a modified bridge client that will be able to download and convert IPS packages on the fly. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
