[indiana-discuss] Re: what's next?

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> Would Conary be sufficiently rich to be able to feed automated generation of 
> packages for other package management systems, so that other distributions 
> using different package management solutions could auto-generate packages 
> from the information used by Conary? In my naivety it seems to me that the 
> package management system for a "reference" distribution ought to have this 
> attribute.


+1, I really agree with that concept, and in hopes of helping to bring
focus to it, I began a "Solaris ports clearinghouse" project a while back.
Aka the OpenSolaris Build Recipes Reference:

http://genunix.org/wiki/index.php/BuildRecipesReference

There are now 608 apps represented (and counting I haven't
updated it in a few weeks).

Eric

P.S. For those interested in source, here's a link to my (now
somewhat out-of-date) source post:
     http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-April/005858.html