Greetings all, One of the largest headaches of running a desktop solaris box is the lack of support for source built/binary packages. Blastwave.org is the current favorite (or so it seems), but it still very lacking in terms of variant support and several packages have fallen by the wayside (the last vlc package was created in 2004).
Something I would very much like to see (and I know others would as well) is a BSD-like ports system geared towards a solaris environment. As a long time BSD user, I am of course biased towards the FreeBSD ports system and pkgsrc, but in all honesty, i find darwinports to be far and above the best ports system available. I would like to propose a solaris based ports system based on the darwinports system modified to support sun tools and packaging. I have a significant chunk of time I can donate to this project and I know of others who are willing to participate as well. Thoughts? Steve This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
