[csw-maintainers] Packages that require either package A or package B

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:29:16PM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:
> Yes, I agree.  Will IPS make pkgutil/pkg-get redundant?  Eg, will it
> facilitate simply creating a 'repo' and adding it to the IPS conf
> (similar to apt/yum)?  If so, all the smarts could be punted to the
> system tools instead, which would be nice.


personally, i think they screwed up with the fundamental design of IPS.
[in multiple areas]
My opinion, is that if we put in enough effort into improving SVR4
for the things that it really lacks (by our use of extending it through
 class action scripts, for example), 
that one day, IPS will be the NIS+, compared to pkgadd's NIS.

(ie: NIS is still here, even after sun "killed" it, and NIS+ is not :-)

Mind you, there's ldap on top of everything :) but still, the bottom line
being that nis+ was just too complex for most peoples' needs.