On 24.03.2017 10:35, nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net wrote:
Hi,
IPS is a tweak on rpm. I suspect a mostly overengineered one, SUN had massive ego problems and looked down on Linux systems. So they could not just adopt rpm, they had to change it sufficiently to one up Linux peasants (many of the original IP packages are based on an import of Fedora rpm specs, with customizations like facets added in)
Why would Solaris switch to rpm, when they already had SysV packages at the time, which are pretty much equivalent in functionality?