Dave Miner wrote: > > > I wouldn't view it as quite such a benign situation. There's a reason > why most distributions settle on one packaging system.
What you left out, is that while each [linux] distribution has "one packaging system", there are almost as many packaging systems, as major distributions. This suggests that there is a benefit in fostering diversity of packaging systems, across different distributions. It would seem that each linux distro thinks so; otherwise, they'd all be using the same one! Sun is supposed to be "encouraging" multiple distributions. If sun is truely in the business of "encouraging" non-sun distributions, seems like sun should thereby not take actions that, either directly or indirectly, force opensolaris distributions to pick a particular one. Sun's Indiana distribution of opensolaris will use IPS? ok.... but is it right to pressure any and all other distributions to also use IPS? If Brian wants to use a different one for what he wants to do with opensolaris... seems like Sun should not get in the way of that.
