[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss wrote:

> However, I'd vote against doing away with the with-dependencies package 
> for those of us who already have all the dependencies installed

...especially as Sun's adopting GNOME as its desktop; a package that, at 
a minimum, uses the GTK+/GLib that come with the OS, for those versions 
of the OS that have them, might be nice (although the more packages you 
have, the greater the chance the user will select one that won't work on 
their version of Solaris, and have to ask for help).

> > While we're on the subject, why does everyone (including Sun) build
> > separate freeware packages for different versions of Solaris?  Shouldn't
> > a package built for Solaris 8 (or 7 or 2.5.1) run just fine under 10?
> > (This isn't Linux, after all.)
>
> Probably because it makes people feel better (thinking that there's last 
> chance of a weird incompatibility problems).

So does Oracle do that, too?