[desktop-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [i18n-discuss] Re: Re: Is it legal to install....

[Dave Miner]

Ienup Sung wrote:
> Kyle J. McDonald wrote at 11/28/06 14:09:
>>> Thanks for sharing the info, Kyle. It is indeed a bit unusual
>>> way to install and expand the system. If you could blog the detail and
>>> share the link, I think that will be an interesting info for whom
>>> want to do the same or similar.
>>>
>>
>> I can post the package add/deletes from my JS profile after I 
>> reproduce it.
> 
> That'll be wonderful information. There was some related activities called
> "minimization" but I'm not quite sure whether there was any conclusion on
> that. I cc'd opensolaris-discuss mailing list for possible comment from
> other folks on that.
> 

Sun's official position on minimization in Solaris 8 through 10 is 
available to support customers as infodoc 86177.  The recommendation 
there is to start with a smaller metacluster and add packages, rather 
than start larger and remove, so Kyle's actually done what we'd 
recommend.  The lack of maintainable package dependencies is an obvious 
problem in attempting to support minimization and leaves us with many 
issues such as he's reported in this thread.

Dave