Ok, we seem to have gotten some wires crossed, since I'm on the IPS packaging team. Let me try again.
In order to use a repo, you have to know of its existence. Right now, one repo comes pre-packaged in an openSolaris installation, pkg.opensolaris.org/release. What I'm suggesting is that on the opensolaris.org home page, a relatively prominent link be placed which points to a page detailing other known (good/decent) repositories a user might want to add to get more software (please see my original email for an example of the list of possible repos I could think of). That way, there's an easy way for people to find a list of available repositories and a explanation of what the differences are without having to read through months of email archives. Ideally, the page would have its own feed so that when new repos are added, people are notified. That's a secondary concern though. Simply having a list of currently extant repos would help the user experience a lot I think. As Seb pointed out, I'm not talking about code repositories, I'm talking about the IPS/pkg repositories that are available. Brock Alan Burlison wrote: > Sebastien Roy wrote: > > >> OpenSolaris users who have installed OpenSolaris and want to add IPS >> software repositories don't necessarily have an OpenSolaris account. >> The question was about IPS repositories, not code repositories. While I >> can't check what the above point to since I'm unable to access those >> pages even when signed-in (I get an unauthorized access page), I suspect >> that it's not related to the original question. >> > > Ah, right - for packaging questions I suggest you ask the packaging team > over on pkg-discuss. > > _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
