[OpenIndiana-discuss] A dumb idea

[Jim Klimov]

On January 29, 2021 6:08:50 AM UTC, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at Duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
>On 01/29/21 06:58, Chris wrote:
...
>Taken this idea, to me it would make more sense to try to transform 
>joyent's pkgsrc,
>as many these pkgs in there are known to build on illumos.
>IF it is possible technically and a reasonable effort.
>

Isn't pkgsrc.joyent.com usable on any illumos a thing already done for years?

I believe it comes with its own ecosystem of binaries and library dependencies, and its own separate packaging manager, and a separate learning and maintenance curve - but otherwise it is something people use who hop distros and like equivalent userlands. Perhaps using it makes more sense on OmniOS that is intentionally minimalistic by itself and ships almost nothing in main IPS repo, than on OI that intends to integrate as much as can be supported, though. 

Jonathan et al did a great job at that project, IMHO.

Jim

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