Martin Bochnig wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>     Martin Bochnig wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Calum Benson
>         <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>         <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote:
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> 
>            On 20 Oct 2008, at 23:40, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> 
>             > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Calum Benson
>             > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>         <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote:
>             >
>             >>
>             >> On 19 Oct 2008, at 13:11, Duncan Paterson wrote:
>             >>
>             >>> What are the chances that this will one day rival apt for
>            selection,
>             >>> frequency of updates and speed.
>             >>
>             >> It will happen a lot quicker once we have repositories in
>         place to
>             >> which everyone can contribute packages.  I get the feeling
>            that'll be
>             >> a pretty high priority once 2008.11 is out the door, and
>         with a bit
>             >> of
>             >> luck it'll be in full swing in time for the 2009.04 release.
> 
>             > Not necessary, because by then users can do the same thing
>         in a
>             > better way
>             > (more sophisticated, but complexity encapsulated from
>         users) via the
>             > then
>             > available conary-based version of Indiana.
> 
>            Which is fine, but just because you consider it unnecessary
>         doesn't
>            mean it isn't going to happen :)
> 
>            Cheeri,
>            Calum.
> 
>            --
>            CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
>            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>         <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>    
>                   GNOME Desktop Team
> 
>            http://blogs.sun.com/calum             +353 1 819 977
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> 
> 
> 
>         Oh, ditto.
> 
>         But think twice: If Sun likes to pay tons of money for
>         re-inventing the wheel only to come into a position, where they
>         can say "we made this, it is our little kindergarden invention",
>         rather than having licensed rPath's conary in the first place
>         (which is in busy development since 2004), then go ahead and
>         waste more TIME, more MANPOWER, more MONEY and more other RESOURCES.
>         I doubt your primary interest is to HELP CUSTOMERS increase
>         their PRODUCTIVITY.
> 
> 
>     Sigh.  Martin, this is becoming tedious.  I think all of us
>      involved with packaging acknowledge that Conary has a fine product,
>     but it didn't meet the requirements that we had identified for Sun's
>     businesses.  We wish you well in packaging up your distro.
> 
>     Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Dave, ok ok.
> But _which_ requirements didn't it meet?
> Did anybody ever tell me (precisely) ?
> I'm still waiting for a detailed answer other than "for (internal 
> reasons) that we had identified for Sun's businesses".
> Thoughts?
> 

I believe that Stephen answered this at one point in as much detail as 
he cared to get into, but perhaps he'll decide to follow up.

Dave

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