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 .... -- %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org