[indiana-discuss] what's next?
Moinak Ghosh
Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM
Tue Jun 12 12:09:30 PDT 2007
Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 12/06/07, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there some particular fault with SysV packages that I'm not aware
>> of ?
>>
>> The "problem" if you can call it that isn't one of package format,
>> it's one of management. Blastwave shows off somewhat okay that you can
>> have a different management framework without throwing the baby of
>> backwards compat. out with the bathwater.
>
> This summarises my view of the situation quite nicely.
>
I'd echo the same as well. I believe that general packaging goodness
can be
achieved by keeping the base SVR4 system (which is quite feature rich in
itself) and building on top of it and also improving it - the present
implementation leaves room for improvement.
Regards,
Moinak.
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