On Wednesday 13 July 2005 07:49, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Alan DuBoff wrote: > > Originally, before Solaris turned into OpenSolaris, and when Sun was > > adding to the Companion CD, the idea some in the community had was to > > build upon it so we didn't duplicate and add what was not there in hopes > > that it would eventually move into the Companion CD through community > > built software. > > The problem with that is since the Companion CD is only updated with new > Solaris releases, you'ld be stuck with whatever the latest version on a > companion CD is. For instance, Blastwave has shipped many newer > versions of things found on the Companion CD for Solaris 8 users since the > last Solaris 8 Companion CD was built several years ago. Blastwave can > also roll out security fixes much faster than "Wait for the next update > release cycle, if there is one."
AlanC, I'm in agreement, and like I said, I don't see a solution for all unless everyone makes some compromises somewhere. All of this only complicates the overall picture, IMO. IOW, I'm not pointing any fingers at Blastwave, Sunfreeware, pkgsrc, gentoo, etc...for the way they have done or are doing, it's all a part of the complications with libraries on Solaris/OpenSolaris. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - Sun on Sun is the way of the future! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
