I am more than willing to develop and support this project, however it will depend on the rest of the community to make use of it. I think that would be a good goal to have ultimately. I have had a couple of ideas to support specific dist revisions of the ports repository, which would make official support and patches pretty easy to maintain.
Steve
On 10/9/06, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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