> This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up > reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus > tools like apt for downloading and installing them.
It seems to me that the ideal thing would be for Sun to go ahead and get around to releasing certain bits of the OpenSolaris tree under dual GPL/CDDL, so that OLPC can merely adopt something like the Image Packaging System (IPS) being developed for the it-might-be-Solaris-11 Indiana distribution. It is even in Python.... :-) [and IPS packages (images) have some *distinctly* Activity or bundle-like characteristics... MANIFESTs/(prototype files)... the need for awareness of security contexts... both OLPC and OpenSolaris are definitely of like mind about a few fairly crucial things.] [[a fun project for someone would be to hack up alien to convert RPMs into images... this is all right in line with the "overlay filesystems" that I've seen mentioned in a couple of different OLPC contexts.]] --elijah _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
