FOSS and Interface Taxonomy levels

[John Plocher]

Danek Duvall wrote:
 > ... lots ...

+1, mostly.


> Right now, we have no effective way to deliver components for Solaris other
> than through "the foundation of our systems".  Solaris is delivered as a
> giant, monolithic blob, appropriately highlighted by its moniker, the WOS.
> 
> If we had a better delivery system, 

I'm not saying "don't ARC...", but instead "if it isn't a required
part of the core, don't put it in the core, especially if it is chaotic".

It used to be that SFW was the place to put non-core things, but then
we started depending on stuff delivered there.  (Wouldn't it be nice
if we stopped playing games and focused on building a distributed
packaging system?  Oh, wait, we're doing both :-)


> As long as we understand -- and document for the end-users so they
> understand -- that these bits may change chaotically, we shouldn't disallow
> Volatile software from shipping.

The more we intermix this stuff into the core ON, Desktop, Admin and
Install consolidations, the harder it will be to avoid the taxonomy/
release/behavior disconnects, and the harder it becomes to untangle
things once we have a better delivery mechanism...

    -John