On 9/13/07, Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> wrote:

>  At this point, completely dedicated.  Members of the team have been
>  examining the various competitive packaging systems for a year, in the
>  context of patching issues, virtualization, and manageability for
>  Solaris.  We are aware that there are costs to a new effort; there are
>  also costs to attempting to wrest any of the existing systems into an
>  acceptable shape.

Just as a matter of interest, has the team included a completely green
fields approach i.e. staff with no specific package management
experience asking customers (users and end developers) what their
ultimate solution would be, untainted by current concepts?  It appears
that this may have been done for ZFS, with spectacular results.

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