Subject: Re: SunOS - Sun Studio 11 released / free
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Chris Wareham <chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/18/2005 11:11:50
Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:18:01PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
>>
>>>what problem do you think it would solve? i don't see any gain..
>>
>>Easy installation.
>>"cd pkgsrc/*/sunstudio11 && make install" instead of ... I don't know.
>
>
> instead of running a java install wizard, which takes care of additional
> things like installing complementary system packages and patches (at
> least for older WorkShop^WSunPro^H^H^H Studio releases).
>
The install "wizard" is not an option for those of us who remove all
Java / GUI related packages from their Solaris servers. As far as I am
concerned, the Solaris package system is very lame conpared to pkgsrc.
Chris