[OpenIndiana-discuss] Do you ever think about adopting APT+DPKG?

[cretin1997]

We have the tech there. Well adapted for our needs. APT+DPKG based Illumos distro is not unpopular. Some distros even use RPM.

Most historic APT+DPKG based distros already dead, only DilOS is left now. So we could have a look at DilOS, the way they patched and utilizing APT+DPKG and we can even co-operate with them, if both side wanted.

We already see too many problems of the IPS pkg. Could we switch to another path?

I know compatibility haunted us. But recently we broke it already. It's no longer the holy grail we have to keep at all cost anymore.

Could we patch our oi-userland to generate DEB packages alongside of IPS packages?

The DilOS people has figured out how to build illumos-gate into DEB packages already.

This will not as hard as doing from scratch as we have many references.


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