Hi.
RPM is a good tool, but has some limitations with the management of the
dependencies.
I think APT-like commands works in a better way, and in some Debian based
distros, like Debian, Ubuntu, etc., if you want to upgrade your entire system
you only need to do a "apt-get dist-upgrade", that's a
> oriented around providing
> both binaries and
> reproducible (but customizable when needed) builds of
> those binaries would
> be a Good Thing
did I hear 'customizable'? say hello to portage!! that's one cool feature of
portage. You install what you customize. USE flags in portage provide you
> Hi folks,
>
> I think the discussion, while very intersting, might
> be focussed a little
> too low level at the merits of package systems.
Yea, lets talk about HPMS intead of pros/cons of PMS.
I would rather work with existing PMS instead of trying
to replace them.
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On 6/29/05, TJ Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is not a bug ;) It is a feature that let me pick TWW over openpkg.
Right, wasn't saying that it was, just pointing out it doesn't really
provide a native packaging solution, which means TWW right now isn't
as useful since the native Solaris pac
> On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > My 2 cents:
> >
> > - A big strike against deb and portage (for
> Solaris/OpenSolaris) is
> > that no work's been done yet.
> >
> > - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's
> not open-source yet.
> >
> > - A big point in fav
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Sunil wrote:
> > - A big strike against deb and portage (for
> > Solaris/OpenSolaris) is
> > that no work's been done yet.
> you assume too much...:)
>
> work on portage for opensolaris has been slow. there are battles to be fought
> with gentoo people for full support. And
> - A big strike against deb and portage (for
> Solaris/OpenSolaris) is
> that no work's been done yet.
you assume too much...:)
work on portage for opensolaris has been slow. there are battles to be fought
with gentoo people for full support. And there is of course lot of work to get
it going
