On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:25:29 +0200
Kristian Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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... :)
Yup. While disk space may be cheap, and even the CPU cycles spent
building all those redundant copies, the person time used to maintain
them isn't - and would certainly be better spent providing more
packages to that one central repository.
<mike
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