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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
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On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:41:37PM +0200, Andr? 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.

> 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.

> </rant>
> Cheers,
> Andr? Tomt
> With his rookie Solaris admin hat on.

cu
Adrian

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