[arc-discuss] [install-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] Let's destroy the conary stuff. __/__ Re: Seeking early guidance for integrating a new package system into O/N. (conary)

[Bruce Rothermal]

Hopefully we will learn, adapt, get along with everybody :*) and the 
stock price will shoot through the roof.

Thanks all

Bruce

Mike Gerdts wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 2:32 PM, Bruce Rothermal <Bruce.Rothermal at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thank you so very much for this info. Maybe Martin will come back.
>> Hopefully I will be the wiser on this because my group will be going
>> through this same process very soon and it is not very friendly from
>> what I saw in the emails over the last couple of days. On either side.
>>     
>
> The process can be quite civil and orderly.  With PSARC/2007/688[1] I
> found the process to be good in helping me to cover the bases and to
> document what is being done better.  I think my experience with man(1)
> improvements was less painful because there wasn't any real
> controversy.  The Conary project started with controversy (search the
> archives) and I think that any unfriendliness is likely a follow-on
> from this.  Conary's progress within OpenSolaris will be an
> interesting test of how things are handled when a (non-Sun) community
> project doesn't fall in line with a Sun-driven (community) project to
> address highly overlapping subject matter.
>
> 1. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/688/
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