On Monday 07 August 2006 07:47 pm, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Wasn't there an effort between the Nexenta and Belenix teams to start a > centralized, "cross-distro" project? My take was that they wanted to try > and share (centralize?) certain source-level tasks/outputs, such as having > common patch diffs for FOSS packages, and consolidating communications > with upstream FOSS developers (so the patches could get officially > integrated).
Eric, I'm not sure. What I would truely like to see is a way that a system could be Solaris friendly, so that symlinks were added to point from /usr/sfw to the appropriate spot. This would make transitioning on systems by Solaris folks transparent. As it is, these distros are starting to fragment, and the way they do things is not standard, and that will cause our community grief in the end. This is a matter of opinion though... None seem to be without fault. Nexenta has it's /usr/sun issue and/or getting things to work correctly for both sides of the fence (GNU vs Sun/SysV). With that said, a standards base so that all of these systems could somehow be compliant. So that blastwave, pkgsrc, Nexenta, Belenix, Shillix, et al could have an OpenSolaris distribution which would allow a user to be comfortable in using, as they are with Solaris. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
