Bart Smaalders wrote:
I'm both a user of blastwave and another Sun engineer
cycle-stealing on this project. From my point of view,
what I'd like to see happen with a community software
distribution for Solaris Nevada is:
1) large scale participation of OpenSolaris developers/users.
2) automatic installation of required software dependencies
3) compilation on recent enough Solaris version that modern
features can be enabled. Eg mplayer can use XVideo, SSE,
SMF, etc; where appropriate, amd64 bit versions, etc.
4) No duplication/replacement of libraries already
present in the target Solaris release.
I think it would be useful to know where each existing distribution
stands right now. So here's a stab at that, off the top of my head:
> 1) large scale participation of OpenSolaris developers/users.
Blastwave CCD Nexenta OpenPKG pkgbuild pkgsrc sunfreeware
Y N N N N N N
> 2) automatic installation of required software dependencies
Blastwave CCD Nexenta OpenPKG pkgbuild pkgsrc sunfreeware
Y N Y Y N Y N
> 3) compilation on recent enough Solaris version that modern
> features can be enabled. Eg mplayer can use XVideo, SSE,
> SMF, etc; where appropriate, amd64 bit versions, etc.
Blastwave CCD Nexenta OpenPKG pkgbuild pkgsrc sunfreeware
N Y Y N Y N Y
> 4) No duplication/replacement of libraries already
> present in the target Solaris release.
Blastwave CCD Nexenta OpenPKG pkgbuild pkgsrc sunfreeware
N Y N N Y N N
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