Stefan Parvu <[email protected]> wrote: > True. Im not reffering here as a drop of IPS but rather as a understanding > point > for future and how this compares against SVR4. Anyway for future community > distro > , if any, would be good if we can keep one pkg management system and be > compatible > between distros.
A main problem with using more than a single packet management system is the fact that they usually use different data bases and do not know about packages installed by the other system. Another one is that you thus cannot have cross packaging dependencies. Your mail reminds me on the fact that there should be discussions between different distros to get a compatible minimum base. It is now nearly two weeks after the OGB teleconference where an Oracle manager confirmed to attend. He did not attend and he did nt even send an excuse. I am not sure about Oracle's intention for the future, but it may be needed to have the Solaris supply done by comunity distros and in this case, it is important to have a common compatibility base. > IPS should have fixed all these things what you have listed. > To me, as a SysAdmin important are the following: Let me strip that down... If IPS nicely interacts with other packaging systems I see not reason why it is not used by one or more distros. Whether it meets the needs of commercial users is another issue. If we like to keep Solaris viable, we need to take care of commercial users also. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
