On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 16:33 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 19 mai 2006 à 13:15 -0700, Alex Ross a écrit : > > Ideally though, there'd be an augmented policy of package acceptance, > > reflecting the fact that the packages with "Architecture: any" should build > > and run on one of the Debian POSIX-compliant systems. NexentaOS is > > certainly one such system. To help implement this new policy we could "plug" > > our AutoBuilder [1] into the existing build environment. > > Please wake up. Debian is a GNU system and needs a GNU environment. I > doubt that more than half of the archive can build without the GNU libc. > This is the reason why the FreeBSD port started by porting the glibc.
Let me just give you an freebsd example: """The FreeBSD Ports and Packages Collection offers a simple way for users and administrators to install applications. There are currently 14682 ports available.""" 14000+ (source ports) is quite a number and far bigger than the half of Debian APT repo. Flink is a good Darwin example and actively growing too. Nexenta is a good candidate of OpenSolaris ports. Besides it uses GNU userland (instead of SUN userland), this simplifies porting efforts too. -- Erast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
