Not to argue any point here but my personal experience with Linux was that the various different repositories for software have given me instructions using their own favorite package tools and while learning I had to use the instructions and tools specified. So I have multiple package management tools installed. My hope is that Solaris will become this popular that there are Sun controlled repositories and others.
Bruce Dave Miner wrote: > Bruce Rothermal wrote: >> I don't think anybody is saying that there is anything wrong with >> pkg-get. But I don't think there is anything wrong with vi. Whats >> wrong with having 10 different package management systems if they all >> work. Thats 10 different ways that people can then start using >> Solaris and Sun. They're not asking you to do the work they are >> asking us how can we do the work to add to Solaris and make it more >> theirs. People want to be part of Solaris. >> > > I wouldn't view it as quite such a benign situation. There's a reason > why most distributions settle on one packaging system. > > Providing multiple packaging systems for a particular set of > functionality involves a cost to the development, testing, and support > associated with it. Interacting with multiple packaging systems also > generally will impose a cost on users, because while they may work > individually, they rarely do so in a collective sense, and that's a > big part of the user's definition of "work". > > It's possible that there are cases where the benefits would outweigh > these costs. I'm not aware of one where that's been tried and proven > true. > > Dave >
