> Yes, that's what I thought comparing "older" > Solarises with the IPS > packages. But maybe changing these things indeed is a > longer, slow-running > process, same as eventually setting up a blastwave > repository that doesn't > provide another libgtk+ and another libgnome and a > whole load of packages > which are in "core" OpenSolaris already.
Macports on the Mac does that too - duplicating some open-source packages that come with the OS, that is. I gather they want to update faster, but more than that, they want guarantees that what they have will satisfy all the other dependencies. The dependency hell among open source is very ugly. I would not want to be a distro creator/maintainer; one has to make choices that sometimes nobody will like. I wonder if the constant use of Ubuntu as the standard is helpful. Solaris (and OpenSolaris as the base from which Solaris is built maybe) is all about stability, not bleeding edge kewlness. Maybe DeadRat, er, I mean Red Hat (and Fedora) is a more realistic comparison. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
