I'd much rather see a ports type implementation than an rpm implementation - particularly if it includes the sources.
fpsm On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:16:41 +0100 > Calum Benson <[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. > > Yes, but is it going to be like the rpm/apt packaging systems, which > are fine so long as you want exactly what the builder felt like > providing, or more like bsd-ports inspired systems, which provide > enough flexibility so that people don't wind up having to build them > from scratch in order to get applications that meet their needs - and > which at the older end are much better than apt for selection and > frequency of updates? > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
