Sriram Natarajan wrote:
> Hi
>   Can we consider the following as well
> 
> IPS
> 
> - package dependency mechanism should be improved so that we can 
> identify by a component name - rather than package name as in the 
> current case. for example, a joomla IPS should detect that apache  > 2.2 
> , mysql >= 5.0 and php >= 5.2 is available on the system and should 
> proceed with installation rather than looking for SUNWapch22, 
> SUNWmysql5, SUNWphp524 etc

Dependency mechanisms such as this are still being evaluated.  I would 
encourage you to discuss this on pkg-discuss (read the mailing list 
archives first).  I would not expect this to be available by November.

> - ability to query and list the number of  components that are using or 
> depending upon a given file (say /usr/lib/libopenssl.so) . I am not 
> sure, if we can do this currently - but a more straight forward way to 
> do this would be very useful.

A new search mechanism was just added to the ips source repository that 
supports searching on just about everything known about a package.  What 
you are asking for is beyond the information we have available at the 
moment though.

Feedback about ips should really be discussed on pkg-discuss.

Thanks,
-- 
Shawn Walker
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