[pkg-discuss] Some thoughts on optional and variant package components

[Dave Miner]

Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:16:05PM -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote:
...
>> facet.devel		true
> 
> This will be a tricky one, particularly wrt DTrace -- header files are
> needed there for non-developer operation.  How do we facet that?  We could
> say that DTrace is a developer thing, but I'll let you wrestle Brian, Mike,
> and Adam for that.  :)  We could just give up on header files, particularly
> because they're small, so who cares.  Or maybe we come up with a new facet
> that's DTrace-specific (are there any other kinds of files it needs)?
> 

Actually, while headers are perhaps individually small, in the aggregate 
they are significant - the compressed size of the ones that currently 
end up on the live CD because we lack a facet to exclude them is >6 MB. 
  Add what's in SUNWhea and it's >9 MB.

Perhaps it would help if the facet were more specific: facet.header, 
facet.dtrace, etc., and leave something that's fairly vague like devel 
as a higher-level expression that aggregates in some user-meaningful way.

Dave