On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:02:20PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:08 -0700, ken mays wrote: > > Going back to the comments about Nexenta build system: > > Nexenta build system == Debian build system > > The equation above means that NexentaOS following > Debian Policy[1] as close as possible. This is done on purpose. > Since a) we now can collaborate with Debian community and push our > changes upstream; b) we can easily migrate huge amount of packages under > NexentaOS APT repository.
The thing about all that, is that it forces the machine to be closer and closer to a linux machine, until eventually, it becomes nothing more than a linux machine with a user-invisible solaris kernel. In constrast, one of the core (unwritten, I guess) principles about packaging at blastwave, is to provide all the free stuffs, while still keeping everything firmly sticking to SOLARIS/SVR4 policy. Not Debian policy. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
