"> The only problem I can see in regards to how IPS was introduced that perhaps > more explanation to the community at the project inception about why IPS and > not something else would do good... a little bit more open dialog with the > community before you start coding on why IPS, what are its design goals, > etc. would help here."
In my opinion, we will always have some gaps here, how open this process will be. Sun/Oracle will not ask the community unless they engage the community in the building process. In my view RedHat is a very well player which knows how to extract the goodies from Fedora without getting burned maintaining it ;) We need to learn to do the same. Otherwise we will live in hope. Regarding IPS and future we need to think and co-work this with vendor and find a common way together. IPS has still long way until it reaches some sort of stable status. From Finland some feedback I got from users regarding IPS (our internal FIOSUG, and other folks regarding IPS status found on 2009.06): - not a download format for a package. Meaning somebody would like to simple download emacs.pkg and manuall install it ! Cant do that now - repository cloning. Still hairy and poor documentation - mirrors: slow links to fetch packages from US. Who cares how well and smart IPS is if it takes forever to have some pkgs install in your machine. Ubuntu has a nice mirror list where pkgs are fetched within minutes. I can confirm as well this. Its a pain sometimes to download something from main repo. I live in Finland and have a 8Mbps line. - IPS resource consumption. Big and fat process when installing some basic pkgs. Dont have facts here but I have seen it too. I had the impression some work went in to get this fixed and improve things. Greetings, stefan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
