On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:40:10AM -0800, John Plocher wrote: > This leads me to believe that we need a different mechanism for > incorporating these OSS bits into [Open]Solaris. Instead of forking > a copy, massaging it privately, stuffing it into a SUNW* package and > shipping the binaries with a Solaris distro, we should investigate > how to push the packaging and delivery out and up.
Hear, hear. Shouldn't this then enhance the ARC's view of this case as specified? Since coreutils are, well, _core_ utilities, it behooves us to ship them as supported, in SUNW* pkgs, but most other FOSS should use a different location and package/distribution mechanism/namespace.
