Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still use SVR4 packages that get released from Blastwave and those work > > for the most part. To hell with that issue at the moment. > > Then your distro will be forked from the Oracle released sources and you'll > have created an extra hurdle for yourself to jump in recreating SVR4 package > prototypes since those are no longer present in the ON & X gates, and will > be removed from more of the source gates as more consolidations transition.
The problem is that Sun/Oracle did already fork and changed things without asking the comunity whether this to be accepted by the community. These changes cause incompatibilities with Solaris 10 and SXCE. There is a big chance that going a different path than Sun/Oracle may reduce the effort at users side. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ distribution-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss
