[rescue] Solaris 9/10 is out

[David Muran-de Assereto]

On Sep 11, 2010, at 15:20 , Phil Stracchino wrote:

> On 09/11/10 15:09, hike wrote:
>> Solaris is a System V Release 4 server product.
>> SVR4 has a "load everything" philosopy.
>> BSD, on the other hand, has a "load what you need" philosophy--no extra
>> stuff that isn't needed.
>>
>> There is a world of difference between SunOS 1.x (BSD) and SunOS 2.x
>> (SVR4/Solaris) or, as we said in the "old days" between SunOS and Solaris.
>>
>> You are asking for something that can't be accommodated easily and
requires
>> a drastic change of mindset/culture/etc.
>
> I'll bet given access to the source code, I could make the "pretend" and
auto-sort-dependencies changes to pkgrm in a couple of days.  I'm going to
sniff around and see if I can find the right person to pass a suggestion to.

You could do a wrapper script based on Glenn Brunette's SPC:
http://mediacast.sun.com/share/gbrunett/spc-v0.4.ksh

I can't find it anymore, but a Sun engineer buddy of mine pointed me at a tool
called pkgdep as well, It used to be in the Sun playground.
We did a lot of package analysis and recommendation minimizations at $work-1
using these scripts as a basis.

Dave

David Muran-de Assereto
dmuran at tuad.org
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writing five lines of their own code to do the job.  And I will make
libtruncate depend on Gnome AND KDE.