Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: >> The idea was to use as much OpenSolaris software as possible. >> Solaris 10 included about 200 Free Software programs. Debian >> includes about 18,000. So now, try to imagine something like >> Solaris 10 with 18,000 packages available... :-) > > Alvaro, I have been using Debian for the last 5 years or so as our > Linux platform of choice (at least from the developer's point of > view). Which also means that I know that 18000 is the number you get > by having e.g. 17 versions of e.g. plotter programs and 75 > different editors you can install. Choice is a good thing, but we > never installed more than 2CDs (out of 7 or 8 that Debian is > distributed on) of packages.
Yeah, you have 18k packages which are.. 10k programs? I think it continues being pretty amazing :-) >> Build a Debian package with pstack, pmap, pldd, etc and add it to >> the base system of an Debian with OpenSolaris installation makes >> sense to me. These are really useful tools, and they are free. > > OK, that would make sense (more than using Linux tools for > that). But how do you propagate that back to other architectures? No, I didn't want to do that. I mean, it was a proposal for a different architecture because it had a different base y common tools. If there weren't license problems, I'm sure Debian would change its current programs if the OpenSolaris ones provide them an extra value. Why not? I mean, as long as it was free, everything should be ok. Anyway, I didn't propose it. I think that is some of the positive side effect we might expect after some time.. > Shouldn't e.g. gedit package be the same everywhere? Of course, it should. Why do you think it would be different in "Debian with OpenSolaris"? Let's imagine: you boot your «D w/ OS» box and do "apt-get source -b gedit". It should fetch the sources and build the same program using the same "rules" files as the Linux version. That was the goal. :-) -- Greetings, alo. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
