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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?
From:       Ian Collins <ian () ianshome ! com>
Date:       2010-09-17 2:28:30
Message-ID: 4C92D24E.10703 () ianshome ! com
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On 09/17/10 12:00 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Richard L. Hamilton"<rlhamil@smart.net>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Well...there are probably people that prefer for example
>> * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default
>>      
> This is why few Solaris users did accept Indiana.
>
>
>    
>> * SVR4 packages vs IPS vs whatever packaging scheme Nexenta uses
>> (there too there's a problem, inasmuch as other tools like beadm and zonecfg
>> are also involved, although I gather it ought to be possible to come up with
>> different versions of them for each packaging scheme that some distro or
>> another uses)
>>      
> SVR4 packages support sparse zones, IPS does not.
>
>    
OpenSolaris doesn't have sparse zones, so there nothing to support.

If I remember the threads at the time, they were (rightly) considered 
unnecessary now we use ZFS for zone roots.

-- 
Ian.

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