Le samedi 20 mai 2006 à 08:07 -0700, Erast Benson a écrit : > > Please wake up. Debian is a GNU system and needs a GNU environment. I > > doubt that more than half of the archive can build without the GNU libc. > > This is the reason why the FreeBSD port started by porting the glibc. > > Let me just give you an freebsd example: > > """The FreeBSD Ports and Packages Collection offers a simple way for > users and administrators to install applications. There are currently > 14682 ports available.""" > > 14000+ (source ports) is quite a number and far bigger than the half of > Debian APT repo. I'm talking about porting the Debian packages as they are. > Flink is a good Darwin example and actively growing too. If you compare the time Fink needed to attain 158 hundred packages and the time kFreeBSD needed to build 78% of the Debian archive, you will understand that without the GNU libc the amount of work is not even comparable. > Nexenta is a good candidate of OpenSolaris ports. Besides it uses GNU > userland (instead of SUN userland), this simplifies porting efforts too. AFAIK Nexenta doesn't use the GNU libc, which is the basis of what is called a GNU userland. On a totally different matter, if the non-free packages required to run OpenSolaris are still part of your base installation, I doubt that many developers will be interested in helping you developing on your OS. (This, added to the disagreement with Sun on the GPLv2 interpretation.) -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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