IPS's biggest issues for us are that it's incredibly slow to resolve and install packages, and the inability to disable new boot environment creation for some packages makes automatic deployment with Chef or Puppet a nightmare.
As far as the name, it's the fact that it's off putting and confusing to potential converts because Indiana comes loaded with strong existing cultural references. -J Sent via iPhone Is your email Premiere? On Nov 27, 2011, at 13:02, "Joshua M. Clulow" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 November 2011 07:33, Andrzej Szeszo <[email protected]> wrote: >> I keep wondering why so many well known names from the Solaris/OpenSolaris >> scene shown little interest in OpenIndiana from the very start. And I think >> in most cases the reasons are non-technical. > > I suspect a lot of them are very busy with day jobs. You generally > don't get to be Famous (or Infamous) by being a slouch. > >> 2. People don't like the packaging system and the fact that it is controlled >> by Oracle. > > Oracle 'control' the version of pkg(5) that OpenIndiana use about as > much as they control illumos. The code is open; it's easy enough to > fork and it's easy enough to refuse the direction Oracle may or may > not be taking in the future. > > I also think it's pretty disingenuous to suggest that *everybody* has > a problem with the packaging system. Every packaging system has good > and bad points. pkg(5) is no different in this regard; by trying to > replace it with dpkg/apt you're simply getting a *different* set of > deficiencies. I recognise that particular individuals have > experienced more than their fair share of grief with the thing, but > I'm firmly opposed to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. > >> 3. People don't like the fact that the project was founded by non ex-Sun >> person and think it is controlled by EveryCity. > > I don't think that's a fair assessment. Where are you getting this > impression from? > >> So many capable people are behaving like if the project didn't exist for one >> reason or another which is quite sad... :( > > Some of us just haven't (yet?) had time to help out with code or > release engineering. There are only so many hours in the day, after > all. > > -- > Joshua M. Clulow > UNIX Admin/Developer > http://blog.sysmgr.org > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21181056-a6eb2d37 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
