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

[Dave Miner]

Ienup Sung wrote:
> That's great and thanks for sharing the information.
> Is the infodoc available freely/publically by the way?
> 

SunSolve says it's not free.  Glenn Brunette was the primary 
author/discussion moderator and is probably the best person to address 
whether it can be published elsewhere.

Dave

> Ienup
> 
> Dave Miner wrote at 11/29/06 07:49:
>> 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