Jordan Brown wrote: ... > I was under the impression that one of the goals of IPS was to eliminate > the need for external installers. >
I think much of the issue in this thread is that the impression you're stating here is incorrect. While there are IPS slides that say something like "get rid of installer magic", that statement was made, as I recall, in direct relation to how dependencies and groupings were handled (especially in relation to upgrades of software), not in relation to all of the possible configuration operations that are required to make complex software systems initially work, which is of course what is commonly referred to as "configuration". Conflating configuration with package management is bound to be a mistake, pure and simple, because then the demand for complexity in the packaging system grows without bound. The fact that the one product installer that's been released based on IPS (Caiman) is much simpler than the one it replaces has much more to do with our explicit decision to eliminate or defer configuration steps than with anything IPS is providing. The approach that the UC wiki links that Tom provided seem to be right on. Dave _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
