Kristian Rink wrote:
> - The visual interface ("package manager") to IPS is, at least on my system
> (Dual Core CPU, 2GHz, 2 GB RAM) horribly slow, no comparison to Ubuntu
> synaptic or even the Fedora package manager. The command line based tool
> works better but yet is not perfect and not something a "desktop end user"
> wants. Along with this, package names and versions are, well, strange at
> times: Searching for "the gimp", it took me a while to figure out the
> package is named SUNWgnome-img-editor on OpenSolaris, and it took me even
> longer to figure out which version of Gimp it actually provides - the
> package version number
>
> SUNWgnome-img-editor at 0.5.11,5.11-0.111:20090508T155210Z
The package names will be changed "soon", you can see a preview of them
here:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/attachment.cgi?id=2144
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6186
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8123
As for package versions, those are going to be changed too in many
places to reflect the underlying software. Most of what you see with
the package names and versions reflects older practices from the
previous packaging system.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
