On Mon, 15 May 2006, Roman Bekker wrote:

> 2. In addition to packages, my idea is to have a tree of /usr/ports on
> OpenSolaris, like we have on  FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, with links to
> places where an user can automatically download, patch for clean compile on
> OpenSolaris, build, verify and install any piece of open-source software that
> can be adopted, ported or patched to work on OpenSolaris. By just typing 'make
> install' in the /usr/ports/subdir_of_needed_software.

I like the idea, but not the use of /usr/ports.  How about /opt/ports?

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