On Sunday 21 May 2006 02:41, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Roman Bekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Patrick wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > >> I like the idea, but not the use of /usr/ports. How about /opt/ports? > > > > > > But to what end ? and with what back end compilers ? > > > > Regarding backend compilers, please just recall how /usr/ports work on > > *BSD. There are makefiles, which do just what is specified by the > > software authors and the port maintainer (which might patch the makefile > > to make it sutable for clean compile on OpenSolaris or those *BSD > > systems). > > Are you sure that this is true? > > Although the *BSD mainteiners are doing their job much better than > the maintainers of Linux based distributions (e.g. Debian), they still > apply patches that have negative impact on the overall quality of the code. > > Jörg
And the alternative is massively out of date software from blastwave, broken software from sunfreeware, crap spread from one end of the hard drive to another with the various locations things are installed on Solaris, to the out of date desktop shipping with Solaris currently - and the 'oh so fabulously easy' to install GNOME off opensolaris that demands the individual to throw away stability and embrace the rickety thing that is OpenSolaris. Sorry, going by what is actually out there, it isn't as though a BSD enspired ports system could make the situation any worse than it is now. Give me a nicely integrated KDE/Xorg experience like I'm having now with my FreeBSD/KDE 3.5.2/Xorg 6.9, I'll happy locate the hole I crawled out of, and migrate back to that location. Matty _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
