Shawn Walker schrieb: >> Is it? I am not sure but if "keeping redundant binary packages managed" >> in terms of, say, having a full installment of GNOME in /usr/bin along >> with OpenSolaris and one in /opt/csw/ after installing a single >> GNOME-based application off blastwave, is the intention of IPS, I'll >> keep myself from pleading for it. Given that, however, i.e. the .deb > > While you could certainly use it that way, I don't believe that is the intent. > > That is more a matter of packaging policy and not of packaging technology.
Yes, that's what I initially meant. As far as I see things, most of the discussion around here recently involving the promotion of RPM mainly seems to assume IPS is technically not capable of solving this problem and therefore should be replaced. I don't think so, but indeed agree upon the "packaging policy" issue. Looking at the age of IPS and its presence so far in just one part of the Solaris OS family, maybe "traditional" Solaris community packaging attempts like Blastwave or Sun Freeware should become obsolete altogether in favor of a "global", unified package repository similar to Debian or Ubuntu in both size and structure (main, contrib, non-free, whatever...). 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]
