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- Subject: Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers
- From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 19:36:30 -0500
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh wrote: > Erast Benson <erast@gnusolaris.org> writes: > >> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 12:32 -0500, Michael Banck wrote: >>> We had a pure NetBSD port before, but so far no non-glibc port got added >>> to the archive officially (but that doesn't mean it would get rejected >>> if it was of release quality). >>> >>> IMHO a glibc-based OpenSolaris would certainly be the better and more >>> interesting option (but might take some effort initially). >> Do you really believe so? Do you understand that such a "hybrid" will >> not run any existing Solaris apps like you will not be able to run >> simple thinks like Macromedia flush player, JRE, JDK, Oracle, SAP, etc >> etc... Do you still wanna do that? > > Yes, IMO. > [snip] > > GNU libc likely does not support Solaris-specific features. This is > not a reason to not use GNU libc however, but is a reason to add the > missing features. I understand that glibc was known to work on > Solaris in the past, so it can surely be fixed up to work with some > effort. In the long term, having GNU libc on GNU/Solaris is very > desirable, and I wouldn't call it GNU/Solaris myself until it uses GNU > libc. If you aren't getting Solaris-specific features (dtrace, etc ?), then what's the point of running Solaris? (Please don't think this a flame, it's a sincere question.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEb7YNS9HxQb37XmcRAnZSAJ9lvT+eRUeI1h49XKB4h01O20oGvgCg7mt4 muS1l9raaQ8ZU9LxIcEeyNA= =zANb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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