UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Which leads to the interesting question why
> > OpenSolaris doesn't take pkg-get. Or apt-get. Or rpm.
> > Ok, wrong question. Not invented by SUN engineers ...
>
> There are better, more robust and more intelligent software subsystems
> available than Debian's DPKG or RedHat's RPM format, which makes dpkg and rpm
> suboptimal choices for Solaris resp. OpenSolaris.
pkgadd has been invented by AT&T engineers. It still implements a lot of things
rpm and dpkg are missing. We would need a few additional features only to make
pkgadd better with respect to any feature.
Jörg
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