Bruce Rothermal wrote: > I don't think anybody is saying that there is anything wrong with > pkg-get. But I don't think there is anything wrong with vi. Whats wrong > with having 10 different package management systems if they all work. > Thats 10 different ways that people can then start using Solaris and > Sun. They're not asking you to do the work they are asking us how can we > do the work to add to Solaris and make it more theirs. People want to be > part of Solaris. >
I wouldn't view it as quite such a benign situation. There's a reason why most distributions settle on one packaging system. Providing multiple packaging systems for a particular set of functionality involves a cost to the development, testing, and support associated with it. Interacting with multiple packaging systems also generally will impose a cost on users, because while they may work individually, they rarely do so in a collective sense, and that's a big part of the user's definition of "work". It's possible that there are cases where the benefits would outweigh these costs. I'm not aware of one where that's been tried and proven true. Dave
