On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 04:17:42PM -0700, Hugh McIntyre wrote: > Potentially what would help here is to integrate a stub pkg-get command > into the base install, but out of the box this would just be a wrapper, > not linked to any specific back-end repository. >
great idea. and actually, already proposed to sun, [or they might even have approached me about it :-) memory is a bit fuzzy now] about 6 months ago. I said "Great idea! Lemme know anything I can do to help you". havent heard much back about it. > > While blastwave does it, I can't use blastwave as a part of some > > other solution. And that's the problem with all the package > > management systems - they're fine, as long as you use them in > > complete isolation. > > Exactly. Say I want PHP to run with the bundled Apache. Blastwave > won't do this, unlike Fink, for example. why the heck would you want to do that, though? > [*] in fact the ability to configure a path of sources might be > preferred. For example: "sun.com if the package exists, otherwise > Blastwave". That way lies Evil. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
