-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ben Walton wrote: > Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu May 21 13:36:14 -0400 2009: > >> personally, i think they screwed up with the fundamental design of >> IPS. [in multiple areas] My opinion, is that if we put in enough >> effort into improving SVR4 for the things that it really lacks (by >> our use of extending it through class action scripts, for example), >> that one day, IPS will be the NIS+, compared to pkgadd's NIS. > > The debian system works well (although I've never packaged anything > using it). Good things (imo) are: > > 1. Depending on or being incompatible with specific versions (or > ranges) of package X Sun kinda supports this now in the depend files.
man depend > 2. Depends on mail-server/Provides mail-server > 3. Depends on mysql|postgres This is one big thing the current Sun packages are really lacking > > Where does IPS fit into the landscape in comparison to debian and > svr4? (Or tell me to go RTFM!) > > -Ben > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers - -- Thanks, Mike "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." * Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955 US German-born Theoretical Physicist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (SunOS) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoVldIACgkQLrhmsXMSLxd/VACglxZQErgPXp8nRpofd/qF9o1r RaAAoNHgPx0OfAmqEMnPd41jOh+9RYVL =hq2M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
