(Caveat, much of the following is my OPINION, even when I don't explicitly say so. It is also just a starting point for discussion)
It seems like there is a lot of duplication of effort going on here. We have: sunfreeware.com - /usr/local ?? blastwave.org /opt/csw opensolaris.org - SFW opensolaris.org - CCD It seems the same packages often exist on more than one of these repositories, and many times all. (Please let me know if I missed any other repositories). Also with the ports community talking about setting up their own repository we are getting up to five! I see opportunity here. Why are we pushing to continue with a CCD? Why not throw those efforts into actually making approved SFW packages, that will become part of OpenSolaris and eventually Solaris? I would like to see the CCD and SFW communities merge. One idea for CCD packages, is to make the new spot to introduce packages into SFW. These packages would follow the same path, and other requirements as SFW. They would also be protoypes for including a new package into Solaris. Clearly since these have the potential to impact namespace, they would be required to have a full ARC proposal and review. Once they have been introduced as a "CCD" package, they could relatively easily be considered for inclusion into Solaris SFW. Where does this leave sunfreeware.org and Blastwave? Sunfreeware.org and Blastwave should combine their efforts. How that would happen, requires further investigation. Maybe the combined effort would result in a /opt/sfw tree that uses pkg-get!! (Both would become part of the OpenSolaris effort, as part of the SFW community) In the ideal world this effort would go into the SFW consolidation, but let's take it one step at a time. Maybe we can't figure it all out in one pass, but we should definitely get the conversation rolling. Also the ports collection should consider throwing their efforts into the blastfreeware collective. Cheers, -Brian P.S. - I am not really sure what the gnu-sol-discuss group is for, but I included it because it seemed relevant.
