Brock Pytlik wrote: > Alan Burlison wrote: >> Brock Pytlik wrote: >> >> >>> What I'm suggesting is that on the >>> opensolaris.org home page, a relatively prominent link be placed which >>> points to a page detailing other known (good/decent) repositories a user >>> might want to add to get more software (please see my original email for >>> an example of the list of possible repos I could think of). >>> >> There's already a link to http://pkg.opensolaris.org on the home page >> ('Package Search'), and http://pkg.opensolaris.org would seem to be the >> correct place for a list of package repos. However, that site is >> managed by the IPS (your) team, I suggest you ask internally. >> > I disagree, especially because we're not going to be the only ones > hosting repos. As I mentioned in the original email, pointing to places > like blastwave and life with solaris might be helpful as well. I would > also respectfully suggest that "package search" doesn't really suggest > to me "list of useful repositories" were pkg.opensolaris.org to be > changed to have such a list. However, I will add pkg-discuss to this > conversation since it appears that any proposed change might need to be > synchronized.
While we plan on linking to all of the package repositories that we (directly or indirectly) manage, there are going to be many community repositories that for various reasons we don't plan on linking to. Furthemore, a page which lists all of the available repositories, what they contain, etc. is still needed. So, let me put the question a different way. If one of the community groups provides a page that lists all of the package repositories available for each of the OpenSolaris distributions currently known (Milax, SchilliX, Belenix, 2008.x etc.), would you be willing to add a link to the front page to it? Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
