On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Ian Collins wrote: > True, but is duplication?
Not necessarily, but choice usually implies some sort of duplication of effort. > Remember these are the same applications, so why duplicate the porting > effort? It would be better to build a Solaris 8 and up and Solaris 10 > only version from the same source. This way the porting only gets done > once and the same pool of maintainers can port more packages. Agreed, but (for example) some people might not like the way Blastwave sticks everything under /opt/csw (including etc files and the like). Or some people might prefer more or less integration (see the vim sub-thread from a a couple of days ago): one distro for all the bells and whistles, and onother for more basic needs. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
