> Yes.. writing an entire package manager from the > ground up is *less* work than maintaining the patches.
This is called "moving forward", IPS is based on new novel ideas, a secure package manager without any arbitrary post/pre-install scripts, which is fast, doesn't hog the system upon installation and is very easy to use, and upgrades the whole system at once, versus just the packages, which ensures you won't have any conflicts. If everyone would do as you suggest and just "copy everything" because it's easier, there would be no innovations in OpenSolaris at all. And IPS *is* an innovation in my book. I've been using IPS since its inception, for how long have you been using it ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
