Shawn Walker a ?crit : > 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.
I'm a bit late to that thread, but - what is an IPS package? I know of IPS repositories, sure, but never seen anything .ips? Also, I've never seen any commercial vendors out there using that kind of distribution model. In my experience, they make actual files downloadable, or even more commonly, they send a media. And a big part of my previous job was installing software on systems with no network anyway, for security reason, so a network-only system is a big no-no. Now, considering that even SysV packaging isn't really so commonly used 20 years after it was introduced, I seriously doubt that anybody will jump on the new, unproven, evolving format. Laurent
