OpenSolaris 2008.05 ships with a graphical front end to the Image Packaging System (IPS), called the Package Manager:
A quick look revealed the following features of the GUI :
- Install/Remove packages
- Search for packages in the repository
- Package Information
As of now, the GUI wraps very few of the features that IPS provides.
I also noticed that I could use the CLI as well as the GUI simultaneously which struck me, since all the package management systems such as 'apt-get', allow only a single instance of the package manager running. I fired a query to the pkg-discuss list and found that the locking mechanism is not yet in place. (See here for more information).
Links to know more about IPS:
