On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Kristian Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Clarke schrieb: > [...] >>> >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I thought that's exactly what the >>> >> OpenSolaris distribution (and IPS repository) folks were attempting to >>> >> do. >> > >> > Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking. > [...] > > Is it? I am not sure but if "keeping redundant binary packages managed" > in terms of, say, having a full installment of GNOME in /usr/bin along > with OpenSolaris and one in /opt/csw/ after installing a single > GNOME-based application off blastwave, is the intention of IPS, I'll > keep myself from pleading for it. Given that, however, i.e. the .deb > package format is _way_ more powerful by now already, and also given > that one of its fathers is now part of the OpenSolaris development > community, I seriously doubt this is the idea of IPS. Feel free to > correct me nevertheless. A "Provides" mechanism, along possibly with > "virtual" packages like in Debian, seems a sane way, however it would > need to then also be used by those building the packages, i.o.w. making > blastwave "less standalone" and closer tied to the "main" distribution > in case of OpenSolaris... > > Just my €0.02, of course...
here comes my dime http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenSolaris/image-update-woohoo.txt pkg works well for me at the moment and all we need now is a non-overlapping tree of software to add on top of it. I even have a handy pile of about 1800 software titles near by to draw from and a whole build stack of servers. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
