Hello Chris, Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 11:28:14 PM, you wrote:
CR> 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. CR> It's not so pretty from the user side either, though I suppose that's more CR> a matter of taste. There are things about Solaris I prefer over Linux, but CR> the package / patch duality versus the everything-is-a-package approach of CR> Debian or Red Hat is not one of them I can't agree - the possibility to roll back to previous exactly previous state is a great advantage for patches in Solaris. We do the same with our software and it works great. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
