> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 05:24 am, ken mays wrote: >> So, why not just work with Nexenta and Debian for now >> to test the build of all of Debian's current >> stable/testing/unstable packages for Nexenta and see >> where that gets us?? > > Ken, > > Sorry to be slow to reply, and I'm moving this over to companion-discuss. >
Thank you for that Alan. > Maybe that would work, I don't know. I first wanted to get all interested > parites to put their needs out on the table so as a community we could look > at it and try to decide what is or is not possible. I think that is what we are doing. > > I'm not adverse to working, or having as many in the community focus on one > project, but think the community needs to understand how they want to have a > common set of libs and go with it. Well, it would help in a big way if we started a thread that was focused and constructive. I have been wathing and reading this now for a while and I see that I had better do something. Thus I will. > If the Nexentra libs duplicate ... The Nexenta people can do whatever they want. If we are not too careful we could end up with a scenario in which any distro produced from OpenSolaris is a cookie cutter duplicate of any other one. I don't know if that is a bad thing. Its just a gut feel that tells me that some variables should remain. > It would be nice if the community wasn't so fragmented, but I don't know of > an easy solution for that. There are a few people that could comment on *that* topic with both extensive experience as well as some degree of sensitivity. I think I am one of them. That is another good topic to start off also. Dennis
