> The user side experience of IPS is no doubt very good but is no different > from a good Linux package manager like Smart/Yum (with the exception > of ZFS features).
I trust you on that one, and Conary, which was pointed out by Martin seems to be nice as well. > From a developer point of view these qualities could have been got by far > less effort and far less code/complexity. It's not up to me to make a conclusion on that, as people have been payed to do research on whether an existing or a new package manager is the way to go. See for example this mail in particular: http://markmail.org/message/wkbbqp5uo6yfunpe Notably, "There are a few features that seem particularly difficult to accommodate in the existing systems: sparse root zones is the foremost (and diskless in general), binaries of multiple bitness ends up being another... ... If you start dropping those, then other packaging systems do indeed become suitable. " -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
