[OmniOS-discuss] pkgsrc-2013Q3 binary packages for illumos now available

[Eric Sproul]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Chris Nehren
<cnehren+omnios-discuss at omniti.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:55:30 +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
>>   - In pkgsrc we do not split packages into separate runtime and
>>     developer components, which I believe IPS does.
>
> IPS doesn't do this either, at least not with the packages I've
> worked with. I know the Joyent folks don't like IPS, but please
> don't compare us to Linux that way. ;)

Let's be clear.  IPS itself doesn't care what's in a package.  That is
a policy decision by the package author.

At OmniTI, our custom packages tend to be monolithic, including
headers and runtime bits.  It's simpler, and disk space is cheap.  The
package set from illumos-gate has numerous examples of separate header
packages (system/header being the most obvious).

Eric