> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > The big difference though is that the cost of entry > for customization / > maintaining current status is a lot lower on Linux, > just because you get > the source packages. There's a lot less effort in, > say, changing your > distro's mysql-4.0.src.rpm to build > mysql-4.1.arch.rpm than there is in > creating a mysql-4.1 pkg from scratch. Or what if you > want the same > version that Sun shipped, but just need it compiled > with different > options? That's trivial on Linux distros, not so > trivial on Solaris....
This seems to be a general misperception of current state of affairs. It's not [i]lack of source packages[/I] that's the crux of the problem here, but the fact that [I]a lot of source code is still completely Linux centric[/I]. The general rule of thumb is "well, it works on my system! If it doesn't work on your OS, use Linux!" [I]That's just plain wrong, no matter how you slice it and dice it.[/I] > > That's also the one big limitation of sunfreeware / > blastwave -- no > concept of a "source package" to use as a starting > point > > later, > chris > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
