[advocacy-discuss] Software 'wish list'!

[Laurent Blume]

Shawn Walker a écrit :
> As for OpenSolaris distributions that don't embrace IPS; I think they 
> will be at a severe disadvantage, but I'm biased :)  I'm also of the 
> belief that third-party vendors would rather use a supported packaging 
> system published by Sun.

I'm a bit late to that thread, but - what is an IPS package? I know of 
IPS repositories, sure, but never seen anything .ips?

Also, I've never seen any commercial vendors out there using that kind 
of distribution model. In my experience, they make actual files 
downloadable, or even more commonly, they send a media.
And a big part of my previous job was installing software on systems 
with no network anyway, for security reason, so a network-only system is 
a big no-no.

Now, considering that even SysV packaging isn't really so commonly used 
20 years after it was introduced, I seriously doubt that anybody will 
jump on the new, unproven, evolving format.

Laurent