Michal Pryc wrote:
Hello,
I would like to announce a new project called JPack, which will provide
a GUI application for managing different types of packages for Solaris
Operating System.
for more information:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/tasks/jpack/
and
http://blogs.sun.com/migi/entry/jpack_install_your_software_easily
Please let me know what do you think about it.
This looks great to me.
I also like the idea of plugins for other package systems (such as
sunfreeware).
Some of my ideas for improvement are:
CSW packages. If I want to install, can it scan the web to list
available packages. Then this is the big one, for its dependencies can
it scan all available libraries and place a link in CSW lib to location
of an alternate dependency.
Maybe this can be a good start to alleviate the dependency nightmare.
Maybe there can be a search engine, so I can search for a particular
package and it would search all available package repositories,
including source and from plugins then give me a choice how and where I
would like to install it.
Also what would be a nice feature is if a package is missing a
dependency or a package is corrupt an explanation point in a yellow
triangle would appear next to the package to indicate it is in need of
repair (prodreg does this with corrupt packages).
I noticed at the bottom it says "You are not root, you cannot add/delete
packages" Maybe you can add a password manager like in Firefox to
automatically add login, or a setup for sudo, or just a plain login to root.
Paul
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