Hi Alan,
Seriously, many people have talked about this in the past, and there are some solutions today such as pkg-get which blastwave uses, and apt was ported with Nexenta...but I don't think it would matter as long as people got their packages and were able to have a network enabled install. I beleive we're moving in that direction, and several projects are in progress that will facilitate some of this, possibly with SysV packaging as Solaris uses today (which would require changes of course).
Actually I've used Nexenta and apt seems to work very nicely. In a lot of ways Nexenta provides a nice middle ground for folks who like the GNU userland and the Solaris kernel. Also, I agree as long as network enabled install works that's really what matters. It'd be nice if the packages were put in the official paths instead of /opt/csw or /opt/sfw as on Linux systems...but my understanding is that's the hope of the /usr/gnu project (to give folks the option of which way to do it). Best Regards, Jason
Most all folks would like to see an automated dependency resolving packaging system. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company!
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