[companion-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Re: [ports-discuss] Re: [sfwnv] Open Source software and OpenSolaris. What is the deal?

[Brian Gupta]

> What ships in Solaris is 100% up to Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> It will have to be built by Sun and supported by Sun for many years.

Personally, if feel that if it doesn't make it into Solaris, than I am
wasting my time. (I don't run xyz dist of OpenSolaris on my mission
critical servers. I run Solaris, and am contributing to this effort in
order to bring Solaris closer to *my* ideal.

This dialogue should happen.

-Brian

> I guess this is where you can see the difference between Solaris
> and OpenSolaris.
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> Other opensolaris-based distributions may or may not be interested
> in this project and they may or may not even use the same package
> format as Solaris.  What we could all share are build recipes
> (do I sound like a broken record?).  The trouble is, all the
> forementioned consolidations (Blastwave incl.) use different
> build systems, build environments.  Of course, they could be
> unified, but it would be a \Huge amount of work.
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> Laca
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