[arc-discuss] [osol-discuss] Project planning and ARC/no-ARC integration (was "was Alpine, now Exim...")

[Alan DuBoff]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Darren Reed wrote:

> FWIW, I agree with the above - often
> # ./configure && make && make install
> is all I need to do.
>
> What I find annoying is when you use some package system (blastwave,
> pkgsrc, etc) to build a package as they often insist that all of the
> dependencies must be present rather than some - which defeats
> the purpose of having "./configure".

This is exactly why I would like to see a generic IPS package that could 
be used by other users, which would include Sun, Shillix, Blastwave, 
Belinix, etc...that if we have a generic package, all could use with the 
same free use of it.

I was talking to Bart Smaalders some last night at the Indiana party, and 
since IPS doesn't have a package per se, more control will need to be 
placed on commit access to such a repository.

Al Hopper has mentioned that he is more than happy to setup on 
genunix.org, and I think that would be a great place to host such a 
repository.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group