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Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?
From:       Jason <jason () ansipunx ! net>
Date:       2010-09-16 17:18:32
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I think part of that was the rather excessive amount of work just to
get a usable build environment to be able to do that, or in the case
of jucr, its incredible opaqueness which made doing anything with it
incredibly painful (I finally gave up myself).  If you make things
hard (or take a lot more effort) for people that weren't on SWAN to do
anything, it shouldn't be surprising no one else did anything...

Hopefully OpenIndiana is able to address those issues.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Calum Benson <calum.benson@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 16 Sep 2010, at 14:04, Ashish Nabira wrote:
> 
> > Lets add those important packages to repositories and make OpenIndiana popular to \
> > newbies....That's one good way to make it popular .
> 
> Anyone who wanted to was always free to contribute such packages to OpenSolaris, \
> via spec-files-extra and later, Source Juicer.  Not many people ever did, and of \
> those, not everyone subsequently kept them up to date.  If OpenIndiana can find the \
> people to port and maintain a large package library that Sun/Oracle never could, \
> then fair play to them! 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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