Philip Brown wrote: > > To make the solaris experience as pleasant as the linux experience, the > extra automated handholding, must be done by "the packager". > As such, it seems to me to make the most sense, to give "the packager" the > maximum amount of flexibility and power, in "the packaging tools and > framework". > > Ironically, i seem to recall that, just a few months ago, someone on this > very list was complaining about "the evils of layering", and how tight > integration was far preferable (the ZFS architecture example). Seems to me, > that attitude would mandate "tight integration" of things that packagers > need to do, into "the packaging system".
Pious programming platitudes aside, how does your intrepid developer handle the diskless client case? How does pkgadd -R work if the post-install script needs more than a Solaris 8 compatible version of awk? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird". _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
