[indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[Eric Boutilier]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
> Dave Miner wrote:
>> The project has to have a clear statement of what it will be initially -
>> is it a desktop that will attract people to OpenSolaris, or a minimal
>> base core to be used in building a bunch of distros?  I believe that Ian
>> and Glynn have expressed strongly the former.

Do I understand correctly that it won't/can't include anything that
isn't ARC-reviewed or ARC-review-bound?


> Yep. In my view, we're first and foremost building a distro that
> will grow the userbase. We should also have some notion of a core
> that's the compatibility baseline for derivatives, but I believe
> that's secondary and can be done as a subsetting exercise once we
> get to the distro.

If the above is true, then wouldn't the incremental work required to
define a core along the way (as opposed to once we get there) be
really, really small?

Eric


> I strongly agree with "minimalist" though in
> the sense that we shouldn't ship multiple options--where
> we can, let's just pick one and make sure it's integrated and works.
> Missing something? It's just a "pkg install" away; and, if it's
> something big like KDE, things like "Kindiana" will no doubt emerge.
>
> -ian
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