On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Magnus Forsberg wrote:
> Thinking about OpenSolaris. It has no use of these packaging systems
> that aim of multi-platform-OS-binary level modularity compability PMSs.
>
> From my point of view what's needed in OpenSolaris is something that is
> focused on the end user, and the ability customize. I believe that is
> one of the biggest reasons of the SRPMs success. This time the focus
> has to be on OpenSolaris and its coming distributions. Schillix is the
> first distribution, and I don't know which PMS Schillix its meant to
> support...

Their source/build system is the SchilliX SPS system, and, last I heard
the binary package format supported will be the Sun standard, SVR4 packages.

Eric

> But we don't want a mixture of Sun svr4 pkg, rpm, pkgsrc, and all of
> the others... in each distribution.
>
> About the source part of PMS, RPM is a great alternative. As a
> developer, administrator and user, this a great system to provide these
> abilities that is lacking in the SVR4 system today.
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