Tomas Bodzar wrote:
It works, but it doesn't mean that it works well. Don't know why Sun decided to
reinvent wheel (the most stupid idea in Unix world opposite to K.I.S.S.). There
is pkgsrc available for Solaris or there are packaging systems from OpenBSD,
FreeBSD, ... with good licence.
Because none of the other package systems really support SVR4 packages,
which is a major requirement. IPS isn't really a re-invention, it's
pretty similar to apt/dpkg/synaptic. And, frankly, pkg-get (from the
blastwave folks) is a hack on top of the SVR4 package system - I'm not
criticizing them, they've done the best they can with the old SVR4 system.
In theory, it might have been nice to support the pkgsrc package format,
instead of having to create a whole new ips format. However, I don't
know enough about the pkgsrc format to say that it would meet all the
requirements that ips does. Frankly, I would be astounded to find out
that pkgsrc wasn't explored as a possible base, and that it didn't get
used because it wasn't suitable.
Aside from the sporadic download issues, exactly what else seems wrong
with ips?
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