[oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

[magnus at yonderway.com]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:25:39 -0500, "Andrew M. Hettinger"
<AHettinger at Prominic.NET> wrote:

> One of the biggest issues here isn't that packages are particularly HARD
> to
> make with IPS (they aren't). It's that there are about three different
> approaches to it, and we need to get that standardized. Many of the
> packages are tied up in the consolidations, which DO seem to have a high
> barrier to entry. 

So what are the cliff's notes to the three different approaches, and is one
of those approaches going to have a lower barrier to entry with still
high-quality results?  I'm thinking along the lines of a third party repo.