[indiana-discuss] "Where do I download OpenSolaris" Ian Murdock

[Martin Man]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Martin Man wrote:
>> looking at the history of X, it's not that long ago when people behind
>> realized that it is no longer sustainable to have one WOS that you can
>> 'make World' with. I believe everyone here agrees that componentized
>> model of X is way better than what we had in the years of XFree86.
> 
> Perhaps, but even so, we'll have to break existing dependency and
> installation models if we switch from SUNWxwplt/SUNWxwinc/SUNWxwman
> to SUNWlibX11/SUNWlibXext/SUNWlibXt/etc. so we have no plans to
> refactor our Solaris binary package to breakdown on the same lines
> as the source packages.

too bad to hear that, how long do you think it will scale?

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