Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 don't like this idea.
As long as there is no OS _independent_ source package system, all the known
package systems suffer from patches that may help on the promary platform but
cause problems on other platforms.
Jörg
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