> No system to date is without sacrifice in some way > for Solaris. I'd like > to hear a lot more of how we can make Solaris be > itself. I mean this in > regards to pkgsrc wanting things in /usr/pkg, > belenix wanting /usr/foss, > and even Solaris using /usr/sfw...or duplication of > libs running wild > amongst the community, and even the gcc vs. > SunStudio ABI situation with > c++ code. This cross-ABI problem seems to bite us > hard. Maybe the idea > that our community can work together as a whole is > merely a dream.
it will get there some day. Redhat and its rpm were (still not) not the best of what was available but at least you got an easy way to get updates of software which probably resulting in having a fair few similar distributions jumping on the rpm wagon thus making it a pretty standard package format in the linux world. The fact that they all used gcc despite its lacking in many places and that there was no restrictions on the use of gcc and the distributions themselves... Sun studio just has to be as available so that software developers will hopefully stop using gcc/gnu ld specific stuff and an easy to update open solaris distribution (nexenta looking pretty much there...) being installed everywhere will hopefully draw the attention of those software developers to open solaris... everything else, i am sure people will be happy to conform. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
