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


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