[caiman-discuss] Additions to package list

[Danek Duvall]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:24:52PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote:

> >>> SUNWter         Terminal Information
> > 
> >    This provides the terminfo database. We wouldn't want to leave
> >    this out right ?
> 
> We haven't established a reason to need it yet.  Not adding.

The terminfo files for any terminals you're shipping should be on the CD.
And if people expect to ssh or telnet in, they may find it a pain to copy
over a terminfo file from somewhere else and set up their own database
somewhere writable and point TERMINFO at it.  And others might be very
confused when vi goes into open mode when it can't find a terminal
definition.

That said, SUNWter is missing a handful of important / interesting terminal
descriptions, so it could be that the majority of users wouldn't find their
terminal (putty, windows shell, xterm-256color, ...) in there anyway.

It's small, so it seems to me to be a no-brainer to include it, but every
little bit adds up.

> >>> SUNWbart        Basic Audit Reporting Tool
> > 
> >    Built-in functionality similar to tripwire. Will be missed by
> >    security conscious folks if left out.
> 
> I'll add.

I must be overlooking the obvious use-case, but how is this useful on
read-only media?

Danek