[OpenIndiana-discuss] A dumb idea

[Peter Tribble]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 3:51 AM Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> What about just import the FreeBSD Ports system and like DragonflyBSD uses
> transformations scripts (https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DeltaPorts) to
> transform it into illumos-ports something like this (
> https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DPorts) and enjoying the large amount of
> software we will never able to port by our own with little effort?
>

That doesn't address the fundamental problem: you still have to do the port
to illumos.

In general, those of us porting stuff tend to look at what's in other
systems to see if
and how they've solved similar problems. But importing the system as a
whole means
you're now having to deal with not only the idiosyncracies of the software
you're interested
in but also having to deal with problems from the alien system itself. To
be successful,
you require buy-in from that system - so something like pkgsrc is fine, for
example.

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