On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Milan Jurik wrote:
It would be useful to build up a comparison matrix of top packages in
the Debian Popularity Contest (http://popcon.debian.org/) and compare
these packages to the ones that OpenIndiana currently offers to make
sure that OpenIndiana is not ignoring popular packages which might
easily compile and be useful on OpenIndiana.
I would prefer to avoid such way. Sun internal people know how such
thing ends... Packages should be added by people who need them and
volunteer to maintain them. Otherwise system is full of popular packages
which are not maintained.
I agree that adding new packages is not trivial and each package needs
a maintainer. However, it would be good to know about any
commonly-installed portable packages in stable Linux distributions
that OI is missing. Knowledge of something missing does not mean that
OI is prepared to accept it. Many OI users are traditional Solaris
users and might not also use Linux so they may not be aware of
something useful which is missing.
My impression is that OI + SFE is doing pretty good with the selection
of packages, but some packages in OI are in need of being updated and
can be updated without any risk. For example, I found an annoying bug
in OI's emacs which made it somewhat unusable. The issue is not
specific to OI because emacs in Ubuntu 10.4 has the same bug and the
bug is well known. The SFE version of emacs is new enough to solve
that bug.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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