Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261714AbVEVA1g (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 20:27:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261720AbVEVA1g (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 20:27:36 -0400 Received: from mail1.skjellin.no ([80.239.42.67]:48783 "EHLO mx1.skjellin.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261714AbVEVA1e (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 20:27:34 -0400 Message-ID: <428FD1FB.4010505@tomt.net> Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 02:27:39 +0200 From: Andre Tomt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog References: <200505201345.15584.pmcfarland@downeast.net> <428E70B3.1050007@khandalf.com> <20050521073826.GR5112@stusta.de> <1116674703.5301.14.camel@gimli.at.home> <428F1E71.6010000@tomt.net> <20050521232451.GK4489@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20050521232451.GK4489@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1293 Lines: 40 Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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. 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, Andr? Tomt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/