Kristian Rink writes: > Mauro Mozzarelli schrieb: > > Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad > > idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with > > OpenSolaris on having to create redundant sub-installations of most > > of the operating system dependencies, only to install a package like, > > for example, "mplayer" from blastwave. > > How?
It wouldn't have any effect on that problem. The blastwave problem is that the repository (in general; there are exceptions) aims to be self-contained and to run on Solaris 8 and higher. That means that many packages declare a wealth of dependencies, and those dependencies are to other blastwave packages that carry the libraries needed. In order to fix this "problem," someone would have to figure out a way to make a blastwave package that depends optionally on either a system-installed copy of the "foobar" library or, if that's not available, a blastwave variant of "foobar." Then you'd have to make sure that it links to the right one at run time, and you'd have to make sure all of the versioning lines up -- meaning that the blastwave copy of "foobar" would likely be constrained to versions that happen to be compatible with the system-supplied ones. No matter _what_ packaging mechanism is used, that's a tall order. I certainly don't blame anyone for not tackling it. I suspect it might not be fixable in any real sense at all. Merely adopting RPM or any other random packaging technology won't fix the dependencies that are built into the binaries that are being delivered. Packaging is just a container. For me, the right solution is to throw more disk space at it. Disk is cheap, and a few gigs of disk for all that blastwave delivers is a pittance. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
