At 09:26 AM 3/8/02 +0700, Oki DZ wrote: >John Griffiths wrote: >> I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical >> about doing something very similar to apt. > >Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I hope not. > >BTW, what makes it impossible the way apt does on Debian systems would >work on Suns? I think it's just about the differences in directories of >files. Well, the main problem would be on how "apt-get update" would >work for products from different companies. > >I believe it would be doable. Due to the openness of Sun, it wouldn't be >difficult to set up "registered servers" where you can safely and >correctly download the packages from; especially the package lists (the >actual .deb's could be anywhere, right?) > >Oki
I can't think of any issues that couldn't be resolved (multiple apt sources aren't a problem, authentication and license checking should be achievable) I think it's just a lot of work in terms of repackaging everything properly to get from where they are, to where we are.
