Theo Schlossnagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Yeah, that exactly what I mean. Debian will bring a huge set of
> >> quality software greatly integrated to OpenSolaris.
> >>
> >
> > Why do you expect that packages that only have been tested on Linux
> > will even compile on Solaris?
>
> Because the vast majority of those packages have been run on a large
> variety of OSes including Solaris. I'm not advocating an particular
> packaging system (aside from Sun's), but the software products
> themselves will have a very high "out-of-the-box" build success rate.
My observation is that aprox. 50% of all sources need manual action
in order to make them compile on OpenSolaris while more than 70%
compile on Linux whithout a change.
So there is aprox. 1/4th of all software that needs special treatment
to make it compile on Solaris.
Jörg
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