On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 20:56, Roman Bekker wrote: > Rich Teer wrote: > > 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? > > > > I have no problems with the idea to have it under /opt, so if you would > like to see the ports collection in /opt/ports better, I agree :)
Heck no. /opt - optional 3rd-party applications /usr - core components of the OS I thought you wanted something fully integrated as part of the OS, in which case /usr/ports is right. (I still can't understand why /opt isn't empty after I install Solaris off the install CDs. It's getting there, but it's not quite clean yet, with a few symlinks presumably stuck in there for compatibility. Mind you, why is onbld in /opt?) Religious views aside... You're proposing a pure source repository, right? How would this interact with a binary repository such as might be provided to install Solaris components over the net? Or with any other 3rd-party repositories (which might be able to provide prerequisites)? Would the user have a choice between binary download and a build from source? Would the source repository include components (possibly different versions, or even the same versions) that are available from the binary repository or bundled with the OS? Could the user select from several different versions? In the event that different repositories might develop, would the user be able to choose between repositories? Where would the software itself end up being installed? (And how do you make sure it doesn't trample over something else that's already been installed?) -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
