Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> > IMHO, it is the systems level thought and integration that makes
>> > Debian more than simply a collection of pre-built packages.
>> > Obviously, I have been quite impressed by the thought and effort
>> > that has gone into the Debian system, and agree with David that
>> > OpenSolaris could benifit from it.
>>
>> Yeah, that exactly what I mean. Debian will bring a huge set of
>> quality software greatly integrated to OpenSolaris.
>
> Why do you expect that packages that only have been tested on Linux
> will even compile on Solaris?
Experience? I mean, the most important Free Software programs are
working in OpenSolaris, this a fact: GNOME, KDE, almost of the GNU
programs, Mozilla, etc.
Did you compile them yourself?
..... or do you just asume that it was simple to compile them because
you did see the binaries made by other people?
I recently built vanilla GNOME 2.10+apps on Solaris 10 and these things
do require some effort to get them to compile. Most of the troubles
require
fixing the configure scripts and/or Makefiles. But in some cases source
code fixes are required.
I'd say roughly 50% of the packages required some tweaking. But these are
not huge issues and once they are overcome, the results are quite good.
Regards,
Moinak.
Jörg
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