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

[rupert THURNER]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 21:45, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:38:53PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote:
>>
>> would it be a lot of effort to replace pkgutil with apt? i especially
>> like the remove parts, the dist features, and wajig as quite
>> comfortable command line interface.
>>
>> e.g. wajig purge, wajig purge-orphans, ...
>
> If you want to attempt to port apt to work on top of SVR4 pkgs, please feel
> free to go right ahead :-)
> [I think someone actually attempted to do this, so you might be able to
>  pick up on their work. But it's probably fairly out of date]

the only thing up-to-date i know is http://nexenta.org,
http://archive.nexenta.org/, who advertise themselves as "power of
opensolaris with usability of linux". but i am a too bad packaging
person to really judge this, and the impact / benefit it could have on
opencsw.

rupert.