On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:04 -0700, 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?
+1 from me too. The more OSS consolidations the better. Packaging itself is not so much of the problem, but quality ports are. I'm also hoping to see a distro built on top of it. Any plans? -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
