Joerg Schilling wrote: >> > Did you compile them yourself? >> > >> > ..... or do you just asume that it was simple to compile them >> > because you did see the binaries made by other people? >> >> Of course, I do know how the Debian packaging system works. >> Otherwise I would remain in silence. >> >> Once a package is "ported" it wouldn't be a big issue to keep it >> building over its new releases. What you have to do is write down > > The Debian people don't port to Solaris but to Linux. > > They even usually apply patches that cause the the software to fail > on any other platform because they don't care about other platforms.
They only care about Linux because it is the only well supported architecture inside Debian; it makes sense. Anyway, that is not a rules. I mean, if we work to get OpenSolaris as another well accepted arch on Debian, that behavior will change. There are another accepted architectures in which some people are working on. I think it is a really good sign and probes that Debian is not so Linux-centric. :-) -- Greetings, alo. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org