On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Steven Stallion wrote:
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
To me this proposal sounds like a good start, the only big thing it's
lacking -- IMO -- is some consideration and discussion of relative
positioning vis-a-vis the Companion CD project/forum. (This is especially
important because it's being proposed as an opensolaris.org based
project.) For example, should this project be housed by the CCD project,
or should it be separate? If separate, why? Etc.
Then I'd probably be a +1.
Eric
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