[oi-dev] Desktop Illumos Still Matters

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/ 5/12 01:09 PM, Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 09/ 5/12 11:49 AM, Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
>>> I asume that what you call "userland" is the successor for "sfw".
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> The buildsystem for sfw is a nightmare
>>
>> Which is why it was completely thrown out and Userland started with a
>> new design from scratch.
> 
> But as this did not exist before Spring 2010, I asume that the new system is 
> not able to create native Svr4 packages.

Correct.  Userland was designed from the ground up for IPS, since that was the
only packaging system in use when it was created.

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