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

[Ihsan Dogan]

Am 21.5.2009 19:29 Uhr, Ben Walton schrieb:

>> handle dependencies as we have always handled them. In addition,
>> I propose to carefully start working on real IPS packaging
>> instead of putting extra work/complexity in System V packaging.
>> A real IPS backend for GAR with all bells and whistels for
>> dual-personality building of packages is surely a Good Thing.
> 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.

Is it now sure, that IPS is going to be in Solaris 11?



Ihsan

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