>I think that you hit the nail on the head with that one. But that is
>ancient history. No one in the OpenSolaris community ( or Solaris
>community if there is a difference anymore ) is living in the past any
>more.

>Dennis Clarke
>Director and Admin for blastwave.org

IHMO, in order for OpenSolaris to be accepted by mortals like myself, 
blastwave.org has to become an integral part thereof.

I saw a lot of discussions on asking the Debian community to form a S/OS port.  
The idea is of course great, but the possibility that this may happen is a 
double-precisioned zero.   The Fedora Core community had a similar thought but 
decided instead to go with "yum".  Now the yum repositories colletively have 
more packages (that are in active use) than apt-get, and are updated much more 
expeditiously.

Many Fedora users went with yum b/c that's what we were told/recommended to do 
(& to help its development).  The resultant huge yum user base also caused yum 
to be drastically improved.  At this stage, blastwave.org is much more 
established than when yum started--there is really no comparison.

I am very interested in having my virgin experience with blastwave.org in the 
near future.  But after a causual glance of the package list, I am wondering 
why there is no openoffice.org package?  Also, does pkg-get handle dependency 
problems? How to become a package maintainer?  How about starting own 
repositories?  Thanks & Apologize for my silly questions.
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