On Thursday 14 July 2005 07:27 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > OpenSolaris doesn't help any, and probably makes it worse with more > > people using more libs and such as you mention above. > > > > Blastwave has all of their own set of libraries, and Sun has many of > > their own in /usr/sfw even, Sunfreeware has their own, pkgsrc has theirs, > > and I imagine that gentoo/portaris has their own also... > > With OpenSolaris, there may be more hope (in case you don't insist in a > specific distribution). We are working onSchillix and we are trying to set > up more recent versions of the libs in /usr/lib than Sun does.
That would be good for Schillix, but won't help any/all of the interested parties have a common solution, as the base OpenSolaris will be based on the ON consolodation. That consolodation has more to consider than Schillix obviously. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
