[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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.... :-)
If Sun wanted Linux to rip off Solaris code easily, they would have just released everything under the GPL right away. I will let Linus explain my point in his usual rude, but quite convincing terms: http://lwn.net/Articles/237905/ :-) > [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.] Hmmm... I have an OpenSolaris starter kit DVD right on my desk... maybe it's time for me to give it a try :-) I used to be extremely fond of Solaris 6 (or 2.6), before switching to Linux. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
