On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:50 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > 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.
with DTrace, ZFS, Zones/BrandZ, Kernel DDI... nope. it will not be that "user-invisible" as you might think. > 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. We are talking about build system here. SVR4 is not something which is covered by Debian Policy. And after all, it is you personal opinion, so I'm fine with it. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
