Mike Meyer wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:16:41 +0100 > Calum Benson <[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. > > Yes, but is it going to be like the rpm/apt packaging systems, which > are fine so long as you want exactly what the builder felt like > providing, or more like bsd-ports inspired systems, which provide > enough flexibility so that people don't wind up having to build them > from scratch in order to get applications that meet their needs - and > which at the older end are much better than apt for selection and > frequency of updates?
That depends on the people providing the packages and the packages themselves. Some software is easily reconfigurable, some is not. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
