John Plocher wrote: > The following is a follow up to today's approved /usr/gnu ARC case > from one of the community menbers who participated. > > -John Text deleted.
Many interesting observations. The most telling is "make install" vs "pkgadd". I believe that yes, the ARCs/Sun believe that pkgadd of fully tested, productized software is what the majority of our customers do and want. Quite the converse of the supposed "local machine" focus, its what the customers such as Goldman-Sachs, Ford, Boeing, the Navy and even Pixar want. Packages leave an audit trail. "make install" does not. If this view is to change, it needs to be based upon real data, not our personal working environment (and we are all somewhat guilty of that). The point of OpenSolaris is not to be another Linux with the Solaris kernel (although Nexentia (sp?) is doing that). Its intended to to be unique in its ability to accel in meeting the needs of Fortune 500 corporations while being very usable to the small shop. At least that's my belief/understanding. - jek3
