On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 05:58 am, Patrick Mauritz wrote:
>> As for why not using pkgsrc, there are many things to consider: eg. that
>> pkgsrc builds basically your whole userland again (at least the large
>> chunks: yet another perl installation, yet another python, ..)
>
> This is currently a problem with all of the distributions on
> Solaris/OpenSolaris. Blastwave, pkgsrc, (I suspect) gentoo, sunfreeware,
> etc...all build their own userland. GNU/OpenSolaris does the same in it's own
> way.
Hmm, thinking about the above made this light-bulb come on:
For each of the major Solaris ports systems, the target platform has been:
a) Traditional (shipping) Sun Solaris releases:
- pkgsrc
- OpenPKG
- TWW
b) Explicitely _not_ Sun Solaris releases, but rather a Nevada-based
distro (in a sense, the port system's target platform is itself):
- SchilliX/SPS
- Nexenta/Debian
c) Both a) and b):
- JDS/pkgbuild
With this in mind, I'm thinking maybe SchilliX, Nexenta, and JDS won't
suffer from the problem Alan sites above...?
Eric
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