The best source for Solaris packages

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There are multiple sources for add on packages for Solaris, blastwave, openCSW, Sunfreeware, and pkgsrc. Ideally, I'd like to stick as close as possible to a single packaging system, so which of these would you recommend I use? Or, should I ignore them, and roll my own?

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OpenCSW has the most up to date packages of the three sites, unless you specifically want the full GNOME desktop stuff. We have all the gtk/etc basic libs up to date, and even firefox3. It's just that no-one so far has cared enough about the gnome desktop environment to update "the desktop".

Check out the packages page, for revs of what we have.

http://www.opencsw.org/packages

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