[osol-discuss] newbie: strange prob on initial use of blastwave.org

[Shawn Walker]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> 
>> My point was that a dependency algorithm was not the cause of the issue 
>> with the blastwave packages.  It is primarily an issue of how they are 
>> built.
> 
> There is no "issue" with Blastwave packages. These packages just make use from 
> the binary compatibility grant from Sun and compile on Solaris 8 as long as 
> there is no new feature that could be used by an application only if it is 
> compiled on a higher Solaris release.

Yes, they're great for Solaris 8 users.  However, for almost any user 
using Solaris 10, their current dependency structure is less than desirable.

Cheers.
-- 
Shawn Walker