[install-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] Let's destroy the conary stuff. __/__ Re: [arc-discuss] Seeking early guidance for integrating a new package system into O/N. (conary)

[Mike Gerdts]

On Feb 12, 2008 2:32 PM, Bruce Rothermal <Bruce.Rothermal at sun.com> wrote:
> Thank you so very much for this info. Maybe Martin will come back.
> Hopefully I will be the wiser on this because my group will be going
> through this same process very soon and it is not very friendly from
> what I saw in the emails over the last couple of days. On either side.

The process can be quite civil and orderly.  With PSARC/2007/688[1] I
found the process to be good in helping me to cover the bases and to
document what is being done better.  I think my experience with man(1)
improvements was less painful because there wasn't any real
controversy.  The Conary project started with controversy (search the
archives) and I think that any unfriendliness is likely a follow-on
from this.  Conary's progress within OpenSolaris will be an
interesting test of how things are handled when a (non-Sun) community
project doesn't fall in line with a Sun-driven (community) project to
address highly overlapping subject matter.

1. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/688/


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