OpenPKG great, but not for desktop?

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel Herrmann
Hello there, I stumbled over OpenPKG about a week ago and thougt that it could be very useful for my new job (managing the applications on a server for 32 Sun Ray ultra thin clients). I am very amazed by the quality and simplicity of OpenPKG. Installation was very straightforward and every

Re: OpenPKG great, but not for desktop?

2006-11-29 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006, Daniel Herrmann wrote: I stumbled over OpenPKG about a week ago and thougt that it could be very useful for my new job (managing the applications on a server for 32 Sun Ray ultra thin clients). I am very amazed by the quality and simplicity of OpenPKG. Installation was

Re: OpenPKG great, but not for desktop?

2006-11-29 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006, Daniel Herrmann wrote: These are categorized as junk (whats that?) and only available in CURRENT. All JUNK class packages output at the beginning of their build the following message: +--Warning+ | This

Re: OpenPKG great, but not for desktop?

2006-11-29 Thread Thomas Lotterer
Daniel Herrmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2006-11-29 10:03: So I ask you: Am I assuming correctly that OpenPKG is currently not for deploying desktop apps? As Ralf already explained in a rather lengthy message, the short answer is yes. However, this is not a limitation of the technology but

Re: OpenPKG great, but not for desktop?

2006-11-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006, Daniel Herrmann wrote: I stumbled over OpenPKG about a week ago and thougt that it could be very useful for my new job (managing the applications on a server for 32 Sun Ray ultra thin clients). I am very amazed by the