[csw-maintainers] Dependencies on SUNW packages (was: newpkgs libslp1, openslp_devel)

[Philip Brown]

On 12/23/10, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu Dec 23 18:32:11 -0500 2010:
>
>> Again, its the opensolaris problem. If you want to be NICE to
>> opensolaris (and presuming opensolaris properly supports
>> checkinstall scripts) then best you can do, is check for existance
>> of the actual required file(s), and if not present, then and only
>> then suggest "hey you need to install the equivalent of SUNWxyz"
>
> Are we now supporting OpenSolaris officially?  IMO, OpenSolaris (or
> whatever it in the new Oracle world order) is a 'best effort' entity.

well, there's "not supported", and there's "knowingly pursuing a path
that breaks on opensolaris".

I think we should avoid the latter.

you have this thread with a very generic title.
if you want to propose a specific hack, for a specific package only,
then I suggest you start a new, cleanly titled mail thread?