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

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Aug 29 13:23:58 PDT 2007


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.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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