On Jan 24, 2008 5:10 PM, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Glynn Foster wrote: > > > While GNOME may end up being the default desktop, absolutely no reason > > why KDE packages should be a single pkg install away. Choice is good - > > even for derivative distributions where KDE is that default desktop. > > Oh, I agree with you 100%, but just surprised to hear that change of > position. I use KDE for my desktop and have for quite a number of years > before I joined Sun. > > I am also looking foward to a single pkg install away, over the wire. > > KDE has never had Sun's blessing, and so be it. The community will make it > work, that is what open source is about.
That isn't a change of position as far as I know. I distinctly remember Ian saying something similar at the summit some time ago. One of the major points of having a tool like ips is to allow easy installation of software from other sources. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
