On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> possibly run pkgsrc which I honestly haven't tried on anything but
> NetBSD.

pkgsrc runs fine on both solaris/x86 and solaris/sparc. I've used it 
myself to setup apache with php as apache-module, and gd as php-module.
IIRC in the last bulk builds, several thousand binary pkgs were produced 
for solaris. See e.g. 
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2004/11/14/0001.html


> If Sun can latch onto this "all from one source" thing, and people
> decide they like that, I see that as a benefit to *BSD. When they get
> tired of Solaris or just decide that they want to hack code again,
> then they have another alternative.

Um, I think you're mixing things a bit here - Solaris is an operating 
system like NetBSD - rather small, and with a definite set of things 
belonging to it. For everything else, NetBSD has pkgsrc, and Solaris has, 
um... some nice people at Sun producing binary pkgs, but that's it.
As such, people won't happily move from Solaris to Linux due to lack of 
software.

pkgsrc fixes this need, IF there's marketing for it.

(As far as I understand, the people working on the Solaris Freeware which 
comes with the Solaris CD set are very much aware of pkgsrc, to say the 
least; what consequences this has... I don't know).

When Solaris really comes out as open source, the pkgsrc crew needs to 
make enough noise to attract people to use pkgsrc on Solaris.


  - Hubert

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