[indiana-discuss] Thinking about an OpenSolaris Media kit

[Michal Bielicki]

John Sonnenschein wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Glynn Foster
>> <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>  Over the last couple of days or so, I've started
>>>       
>> to think about the media kits a
>>     
>>>  little more, particularly with respect to
>>>       
>> http://get.opensolaris.org for the
>>     
>>>  OpenSolaris release, but also in terms of being
>>>       
>> able to create derivations
>>     
>>>  targeting specific sets of our potential user
>>>       
>> base.
>>     
>>>  As I see it, I think it should be possible to
>>>       
>> create a generic framework that
>>     
>>>  would allow us to swap in and out components,
>>>       
>> depending on that focus - with the
>>     
>>>  addition of more CD's depending on the focus.
>>>       
>> Going one step farther:
>>
>> I'm assuming this means that people could go to the
>> media kit website,
>> pick out the modules they want (within a given size
>> limitation) and
>> then order that particular combo?
>>     
>
> Hey Shawn, Dunno if this particular idea is workable ( It might be... anyone know? ) but I do agree that having a handful of media kits is a great idea... eg, one DVD that's got the whole kit & caboodle ( KDE, GNOME, Flux, ruby, python, xAMP stack, etc ), and then a bunch of CD's that you can order ( order one KOpenSolaris, or ROpenSolaris ( ruby, you see... ), or GOpenSolaris, or whatever ) 
>
>
>   
>>>  As such you could think about a number of
>>>       
>> standalone 'modules' -
>> These are all great.
>>
>>     
>>>  Anyway, just throwing this out to see if there's
>>>       
>> any ideas people have that
>>     
>>>  haven't been captured. I'm sure there's *heaps* of
>>>       
>> other possibilities,
>>     
>>>  particularly around making it really easy for
>>>       
>> people to contribute to the
>>     
>>>  project. Let me know what you think!?
>>>       
>> I would like to see the entire desktop be a module.
>> That is, all of
>> the GNOME-specific desktop stuff as one big module.
>> That way folks
>> could easily add on their own desktop of choice (i.e.
>> XFCE, KDE,
>> however).
>>
>> Alternatively, one big "GUI" module, so folks could
>> get a strictly
>> "console-based" experience for servers, etc. :)
>>     
>
> Oh, or for server stuff those mini-CD's ? like, one miniCD for a ruby server, one minicd for an xAMP server, one minicd for ... etc
>   
This could also be a fantastic example for people that want to create 
their own mini bundles (I can already think of about 5 I might want to 
do), of what needs to be in a mini platform.
One question that comes to my mind while reading this is, does IPS hav e 
virtual packages ? I.e. in rpm/yum I have meta packages like KDE/GNOME 
etc that just are packages of dependencies.

cheers
Michal

PS: oh yes a big big +1 for the idea :)

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