OpenSolaris Speed VS. Linux. 4196

Both (Gentoo and NetBSD pkgsrc) use a monolitic approach that I don't like.

With both, you first need to install 250 MB of "skeleton files". With NetBSD pkgsrc you in addition need to have several ported NetBSD binaries (e.g. a bsd make that cannot be compiled without a bsd make :-() and you need to install the system on a fixed predefined path.

I don't like this and for this reason, I did write a Schily Source Package System that is based on 10 year old ideas:

Based on my Schily Makefilesystem, I did develop my source package system in a modular may, based on the Slottable Source Plugin Module System (SSPM). It is able to "boot" from a shell script with a size of less than 10 kB.

If you like to test, first fetch 'src-get'

make it executable (chmod +x src-get) and put it into a directory in the search PATH.

Then create a new and empty directory 'mkdir sps' and chdir to that directory 'cd sps'.

Now call 'src-get init' and wait 2-3 seconds. You will end up with a Schily makefile system skeleon installed in the current directory.

Now call 'src-get setup' and wait 3-15 minutes (depending on the speed of the machine). This will set fetch-compile-setup a minimum set of binaries in e.g. "bins-i386-sunos5-cc".

Now you may call e.g. 'src-get list' and will see a list of available packages.

If you like to install all 5 currently available soure ports, call

'src-get install all'

this demonstrates that dependencies and empty packages (speudo packages) already work.

Once you are ready, you may call 'src-get compile' or 'src-get shell' and then call 'smake'.

Please comment.

Note that I am looking for people who are willing to help me creating the packages.

--