Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Andre Tomt]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:41:37PM +0200, André Tomt wrote:
>
> > Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> >
> > > Did you ever see Solaris installations without GNU-tools from
> > > sunfreeware.com installed?
> >
> > Hnngh! Missing dependencies (do the package format support it at all?), 
>
>
> Solaris packages support dependencies.
> That's what the "depend" file is for.

Great, now if sunfreeware would just use it ;-)

Disclaimer: I havn't checked the entire archive.

> > no splitting (why should I need apache2 for the portability library 
> > libapr?), odd things like needing sunfreeware gzip instead of the 
> > solaris one in some packages (something that you don't notice until its 
> > too late)... its like going way back in time to slackware.
>
>
> Brian complained about the package format and not about specific 
> packages.
>
> I've also seen horrible rpm or dpkg packages, but that's irrelevant when 
> talking about package formats.

I was talking about sunfreeware.com packages. Maybe it wasn't clear enough.

--
Cheers,
André Tomt
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