On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Dave Miner wrote: > Not being a Debian user, I won't try to compare. I guess your > experience with Solaris patches is more from the user end, whereas I'm > looking at it from the creator/maintainer end; let's just say that there > are a lot of resources expended to make sure that your user experience > is acceptable. It isn't so pretty from this side. Much of the > functionality is provided through horrendous overloading of some > elements of packages, and it ends up being remarkably difficult to get > it right.
It's not so pretty from the user side either, though I suppose that's more a matter of taste. There are things about Solaris I prefer over Linux, but the package / patch duality versus the everything-is-a-package approach of Debian or Red Hat is not one of them later, chris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
