On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Joerg Schilling
<joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> > For any of the dependencies, it should be obvious that the dependencies 
>> > that
>> > are valid for Solaris 8 need to be installed for Solaris 11 too as any
>> > blastwave package need to use the other probrams from it's own environment 
>> > in
>> > order to behave reliably.
>>
>> It can also reduce reliability, if both the system-provided and blastwave
>> versions of libraries end up linked into the same addresss space, and other
>> libraries end up calling different versions than they expect, especially of
>> things with unstable ABI's like OpenSSL, that may be used both by 
>> applications
>> and by lower-level libraries called by the applications.
>
> Correct, using the OSS libraries and programs provided by Sun may reduce
> reliability for Blastwave as Blastwave usually delivers more up-to-date
> packages than Sun and as these packages in many cases require more up-to-date
> versions of libraries or other programs. This is another reason for creating
> an own ecosystem.
>
> Jörg


Joerg is right.
I can confirm this.

p.s. Blastwave even offers star   ....


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