> i installed pkg-get but i don't like much that it use > /opt/csw as root dir. it's possibile and it's > problem-free integrate packages get via pkg-get into > system? if it's possible i can install gstremer > plugins and totem maybe can use those plugins to play > videos....
I think the point is that the blastwave packages won't interfere with or replace system packages; it also means they can have separate versions of libraries from the system, to satisfy different dependencies. (This used to mean they could have much newer versions of at least some applications than one found in SFW or the Companion CD; but that may well be less true now than it once was.) It does mean a lot of extra disk space for all the duplicates. But it is still a reasonable approach to decoupling delivery of executables from what Sun provides. Also keep in mind the problems with licensing or patents on a lot of codecs (and DVD decryption); a commercial vendor might not be able to distribute open-source based software that uses these, but depending on where they operated from, a non-commercial site might be able to get away with it. I don't know what the future has to offer on this sort of thing; there are some gstreamer plugins available commercially from Fluendo, but AFAIK, that's little help in the area of DVD player programs, for example. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
