Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

[Bernardo Innocenti]

elw at stderr.org wrote:
>> This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up 
>> reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus 
>> tools like apt for downloading and installing them.
> 
> It seems to me that the ideal thing would be for Sun to go ahead and get 
> around to releasing certain bits of the OpenSolaris tree under dual 
> GPL/CDDL, so that OLPC can merely adopt something like the Image Packaging 
> System (IPS) being developed for the it-might-be-Solaris-11 Indiana 
> distribution.
>
> It is even in Python.... :-)

If Sun wanted Linux to rip off Solaris code easily,  they would
have just released everything under the GPL right away.

I will let Linus explain my point in his usual rude, but
quite convincing terms:

  http://lwn.net/Articles/237905/

:-)


> [and IPS packages (images) have some *distinctly* Activity or bundle-like 
> characteristics... MANIFESTs/(prototype files)... the need for awareness 
> of security contexts... both OLPC and OpenSolaris are definitely of like 
> mind about a few fairly crucial things.]

Hmmm... I have an OpenSolaris starter kit DVD right on my desk... maybe
it's time for me to give it a try :-)

I used to be extremely fond of Solaris 6 (or 2.6), before switching
to Linux.

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