[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

R. Lonstein rlonstein at pobox.com
Wed Jan 15 10:50:23 CST 2003


On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:21:47PM +0100, Frank Van Damme wrote:
	[snip]
> Imho, package management is the main selling point for a distribution :-)
	[snip]

If only the world were that simple. I found ENCAP to be useful
(http://www.encap.org/). GNU Stow is similar in purpose but without
the handy archive file.

By the way, anyone know of a freely available document describing the
SYSV package scheme, particularly the file format, as used by Sun?

- Ross


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