John Sonnenschein wrote:
> Here's the problem I immediately see with that vision.
>
> It completely eliminates the possibility to innovate in the sphere of
> package management. If IPS sucks and someone comes up with something
> better, using it in a distro would preclude them from attaching
> anything more substantive than " - a kindof, sortof I guess a little
> bit of OpenSolaris code is in there, maybe" label to their distro,
> because they aren't compatible with this "ecosystem" ( repackaged F/
> LOSS ) even if everything else is identical to Indiana.
>
> Particularly if they decide to do something odd like gentoo linux and
> have a source-based packaging system.
IPS is managing to innovate while co-existing with SVR4 packaging -
other attempts to innovate around packaging could do the same - allow
others to exist on the system at the same time, though they may be
restricted to only providing compatibility with packages built for
those other systems.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
