If you've never heard of pkgsrc, have a look at http://www.pkgsrc.org/
Basically pkgsrc is a cross platform package management framework, that has support for many different Unix operating systems, not just NetBSD. I use pkgsrc quite successfuly on Solaris, however there is still a large number of packages that don't build on Solaris, due to a different operating environment and compilers (I use SunStudio 11 compilers). OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your favourite web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer precompiled Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. Also Solaris native packaging system sucks, compared to pkgsrc. I think some people at Sun are aware of pkgsrc (they even donated a few sparc machines to NetBSD project). I was wondering if Sun had any plans to adopt pkgsrc for OpenSolaris or put more effort behind it. The infrastructure is there, what's missing are the people who regularly build packages on Solaris, find and fix problems and submit patches. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
