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[Garrett D'Amore]

Jyri Virkki wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>   
>> Ah, but the same logic is used to cite "inclusion" of other FOSS 
>> packages.  For example, unison does not ship in the default Ubuntu 
>> distribution, but is part of "Universe" (which is fairly similar to the 
>> FreeBSD ports collection.)
>>
>> I wonder how much of what we are including in our "base" is stuff that 
>> really belongs in a readily accessible network repository.  
>>     
>
> As we evolve away from consolidations and WOS it's important to be
> clear with terminology. Not sure what you mean by 'default
> distribution'.  Plenty of Sun's very own packages are not going to be
> on the LiveCD (possibly the most obvious interpretation of 'default
> distribution') and live only on a readily accessible network
> repository to be installed at will, or not.
>   

Right now, though, the only metric we have is the "Everything Plus OEM" 
installation in OEM.  That is, effectively, the "default install" for 
Solaris (and OpenSolaris) customers today.  (One could argue that the 
"Developer" meta cluster fills this role instead.  I won't debate the 
matter one way or another...)

Once we have a network repo, and a smaller LiveCD (with hopefully more 
care thought put into what packages are part of the LiveCD) a lot of my 
objections to past FOSS cases will simply vanish.  (I'm sure "unzoo" is 
useful to someone somewhere, and I don't want to deny him access to it.  
I just don't want to saddle everyone else with baggage that serves only 
a tiny minority of users, and which fails to meet certain minimum 
architectural and possibly quality -- or at least quality assurance -- 
standards.)

    -- Garrett