Martin Bochnig wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > On 20 Oct 2008, at 23:40, Martin Bochnig wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Calum Benson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > >> > >> On 19 Oct 2008, at 13:11, Duncan Paterson wrote: > >> > >>> What are the chances that this will one day rival apt for > selection, > >>> frequency of updates and speed. > >> > >> It will happen a lot quicker once we have repositories in place to > >> which everyone can contribute packages. I get the feeling > that'll be > >> a pretty high priority once 2008.11 is out the door, and with a bit > >> of > >> luck it'll be in full swing in time for the 2009.04 release. > > > Not necessary, because by then users can do the same thing in a > > better way > > (more sophisticated, but complexity encapsulated from users) via the > > then > > available conary-based version of Indiana. > > Which is fine, but just because you consider it unnecessary doesn't > mean it isn't going to happen :) > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GNOME Desktop Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 977 > > > > > Oh, ditto. > > But think twice: If Sun likes to pay tons of money for re-inventing the > wheel only to come into a position, where they can say "we made this, it > is our little kindergarden invention", rather than having licensed > rPath's conary in the first place (which is in busy development since > 2004), then go ahead and waste more TIME, more MANPOWER, more MONEY and > more other RESOURCES. > I doubt your primary interest is to HELP CUSTOMERS increase their > PRODUCTIVITY. >
Sigh. Martin, this is becoming tedious. I think all of us involved with packaging acknowledge that Conary has a fine product, but it didn't meet the requirements that we had identified for Sun's businesses. We wish you well in packaging up your distro. Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
