Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

Erast Benson wrote:
> 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?


Then provide the Solaris libc and other support libraries somewhere 
proprietary applications can use them, while building your system around 
glibc.  This would also solve the problem of shipping binaries linked 
with a non-GPL-compatible glibc together with said libc, which as it 
currently stands is a violation of the GPL (AIUI, anyway).

- tfheen