My Blastwave experience goes back to Solaris 7/8, so maybe it wasn't a 100% fair statement. Around the time when the Sun Freeware collection came out, I had to choose between 2 distribution sets. Even if I had installed the SFW version of ncurses, I would still have to install the Blastwave release of ncurses just to satisfy another dependency from another Blastwave package. I had to choose from 2 separate code branches that would never cross over. I decided to stick with stuff that was released from Sun.
If there was other code that I didn't need, I just compiled it on my own and built my own SVR4 packages. To this day, I still compile my own stuff if I think it's going to be easier to deal with. Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Regarding comment 2. If you want use cases of bad dependencies, just >> look at the stuff on Blastwave. >> > > such as ? > > You can always just pkgrm what you don't want. That is trivial. > >
