[indiana-discuss] Ok here come my 2c

[Michal Bielicki]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Michal Bielicki wrote:
>> Actually these are not mine but Brian Guptas:
>>
>>  
>>> There is a desire for a minimal/core OpenSolaris distro, that other
>>> distro packagers can leverage to create their own distros. Building a
>>> distro from this core *may*, in the future, allow other distros to
>>> also be hosted at OpenSolaris.org. This OS core must, for the sake of
>>> practicality, allow layers to be added on top to get to Nevada.
>>>     
>>
>> I would take this a step further, claiming that we need a OS core that
>> would be the core of
>> Solaris, Nexenta, Belenix, yet to come shmolarix, shmelenix and however
>> you want to call your future distro.
>>   
>
>   Isn't that the OpenSolaris source that we have today ? The core OS
> and libraries.
No, for me its not though I might be wrong. The source is not something
you can base your distribution on. Its nothing to test against, compare
to or whatever. Its not even a reference source sicne its vastly
incomplete as far asz I can see, with missing bits and pieces all over
the place. So no it is not. There should be a reference core binary
distribution that can be used for testing, reference, comparison and
corss compatibility maintainance and the source is for sure not that.
>
> [...]

>   A reference base without packaging is not a very useful base for
> rolling out
>   your own distros. Effective packaging is indispensable for a working
> reference
>   base.
Does that mean that all distros based on the opensolaris reference would
have to use the same packaging ? So you mean that packaging defines the
core distribution ? And all derived work would be packaged the same way
? A distribution of distributions with its derivatives just defined via
a collection of apss ?