Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > I still use SVR4 packages that get released from Blastwave and those work
> > for the most part. To hell with that issue at the moment.
>
> Then your distro will be forked from the Oracle released sources and you'll
> have created an extra hurdle for yourself to jump in recreating SVR4 package
> prototypes since those are no longer present in the ON & X gates, and will
> be removed from more of the source gates as more consolidations transition.
The problem is that Sun/Oracle did already fork and changed things without
asking the comunity whether this to be accepted by the community. These changes
cause incompatibilities with Solaris 10 and SXCE. There is a big chance that
going a different path than Sun/Oracle may reduce the effort at users side.
Jörg
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