James Carlson schrieb: >>> Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad >>> idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with >>> OpenSolaris on having to create redundant sub-installations of most >>> of the operating system dependencies, only to install a package like, >>> for example, "mplayer" from blastwave. >> How? > > It wouldn't have any effect on that problem. > The blastwave problem is that the repository (in general; there are > exceptions) aims to be self-contained and to run on Solaris 8 and > higher.
That's what I thought, as well. :) > No matter _what_ packaging mechanism is used, that's a tall order. I > certainly don't blame anyone for not tackling it. I suspect it might > not be fixable in any real sense at all. Indeed, for what I have seen so far I think IPS shouldn't be the limiting factor here. > For me, the right solution is to throw more disk space at it. Disk is > cheap, and a few gigs of disk for all that blastwave delivers is a > pittance. Talking about OpenSolaris though, I (honestly) don't see much use in keeping a vast bunch of different builds of the same libraries maintained - who should possibly spend time and effort doing so? Maybe in terms of OpenSolaris, people should leave aside the "self-contained" blastwave idea and focus on maintaining _one_ large IPS repository with a wider range of applications available rather than a bunch of fragmented ones with wagonloads of redundant binaries... Just my $0.02 on that of course... :) Cheers, Kristian -- Kristian Rink * http://zimmer428.net * http://flickr.com/photos/z428/ jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 176 2447 2771 "One dreaming alone, it will be only a dream; many dreaming together is the beginning of a new reality." (Hundertwasser) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
