* Rich Reynolds (rich at redstar-assoc.com) wrote: > Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> * Dave Miner (dminer at opensolaris.org) wrote: >>> Personally, I don't get the enthusiasm that's been expressed for >>> supporting this particular installation mode. I tend to believe that >>> it's due to habit of long-time Solaris users who haven't had network >>> package repo's; it was less inconvenient to have a pile of extra, >>> mostly useless bits lying around and adding overhead to upgrades >>> than to have to hunt up a DVD in the event that some of those bits >>> were needed later on. I'd never want to do this with any Linux >>> distro, either (and didn't, when I was using them a lot). >> >> That echoes my sentiments precisely (even the part about not doing this >> on any Linux distro) for whatever it's worth. >> >> Cheers, >> > There is a large segment of the present SunOS user community for whom > network package repo's are doable, but not with out a GREAT deal of work > and GREATER gnashing of teeth... they have no connection to > pkg.opensolaris.org or any other .org/.com/... domain. their standard > requirement is that all the stuff show up on media that can be trusted > to have come from the vendor. Now you know the population of which I > speak, and the massive headaches they will have deploying...
Absolutely, I completely agree. And we'll (well the IPS effort) will provide for such users/use cases when IPS gets an on-disk format thus enabling a 'repo-on-a-dvd'. Cheers, -- Glenn
