[OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

[Guenther Alka]

I forgot

What is the problem to install either pure Illumos or a Illumos freeze 
from OmniOS and use the OI repository additional to the core OmniOS and 
OmniOS extra repository to use the additional options?

Where are the problems? Is this only to have same packages in different 
repositories or that OI would need something similar to the OmniOS extra 
repository when using Illumos to avoid conflicts? Maybe this can be 
solved to allow a underlying pure ongoing Illumos or one of the three 
OmniOS flavours.

Please educate me.

Gea


Am 07.01.2021 um 18:08 schrieb Guenther Alka:
> Not broken as it never worked
> (multi purpose Illumos Unix with a stable/long term stable/newest beta 
> base).
>
> OI currently: always and only newest beta based
> so Yes: (maybe easy to say as I cannot help to do the needed work - 
> unsure about the needed efforts)
>
> When I remember the first steps of OpenIndiana, the lack of a stable 
> was a constant item on all meetings.
>
> When OmniOS started they first tried to use OpenIndiana as base what 
> was more or less OpenSolaris at that time with too many dependencies. 
> Then Illumos started as a minimalistic OS based on OpenSolaris and 
> OmniOS used this as base. Now as OI is pure Illumos as base and OmniOS 
> is more or less pure Illumos freezed in a fork per release there is no 
> real reason to have two bases and two software repositories for 
> different use cases with the problem for OI that the underlying 
> Illumos can change from day to day.
>
> Gea
>
> Am 07.01.2021 um 17:24 schrieb Chris:
>> On 2021-01-07 06:02, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>> Well spoken,, Gea! I am in favour of consolidating the OpenSolarish 
>>> community. If
>>> merging would reinvogarate interest and momentum, it can be worth 
>>> it. And you guys
>>> have been discussing this merging for ages, it is your old idea 
>>> taken up again. It
>>> seems that several of you think this is the only way forward, in the 
>>> long run.
>>> This is what we want to do. Base a desktop package ontop OmniOS 
>>> stable (or LTS). I
>>> am interested in helping such an effort.
>>> Some people say yay, some say nay. Should we create a poll, to see 
>>> how large the
>>> interest is?
>>
>> I vote: NAY.
>> There is no need to fix what is not broken.
>>
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