Moinak Ghosh wrote:
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Lurie <y...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
So modern Linux package managers do not have any of these qualities ?
Some of them ? Of course. All of them ? No. Just a few points:
1. They usually upgrade a live system (and while it's possible for some to do a
non-live upgrade, the live upgrade is exactly how pretty much all of them
operate by default).
Yes. But the separate boot environment pieces is what is delivered by ZFS +
Caiman Installer, not a package manager feature per-se.
Yes, but without integration with the package management system, they
would be rather cumbersome to use.
Relative. If one wants to benefit from open-sourcing then in the longer run,
for some stuff, it is better to work with the community and try to utilize
synergies with community run projects rather than doing everything in own
way.
The pkg(5) team has worked with the OpenSolaris community directly and
invites any members that want to participate in its development to do
so. The source code has been hosted on opensolaris.org publicly for a
long time, and almost all discussions surrounding its design occur on
the public pkg-discuss mailing list.
Your primary gripe about IPS seems to be "why didn't they just enhance
another packaging system." You could ask that same question about
thousands of other open source projects. There's a saying, "when all
you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." You seem to be
looking at things the same way...
Cheers,
-Shawn
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