I'd just like to throw my thoughts in to the ring for this, but the genunix page lists "Binary only packages allowed" as a goal..
That is, in my opinion, a /TERRIBLE/ idea, and likely to get people in more trouble and reflect worse on (open)solaris than just simply not having the packages at all. Any sort of poor software, either through malice (trojans) or incompetence (running being heavily dependent on the builder's specific system setup) can be sneaked in with absolutely no oversight. I think an SFE-like "build recipe" and an automated build system is much more likely to attract quality software than untrusted binary blobs being put on what will be seen as an offical repository (no amount of small text will detract from the fact that it is pkg.opensolaris.org/foo, and therefore perceived as "official" ). Binary blobs are fine, but they ought to be the exception, and ought to require human intervention that they are trusted enough to deliver binary ( I'm sure if adobe came up and wanted to dump stuff in contrib/ that they'd be greenlit. ) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
