On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Dave Miner<dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> It's quite a bit more effort than that, in fact, and at present would
> perform abysmally because the pkg installation from an on-DVD repository
> uses I/O patterns that map extremely poorly to the characteristics of DVD
> media. ?We ran the experiment, so this isn't just theoretical.
>
> In other words, you could build one right now if you're willing to go to a
> *lot* of effort, but you wouldn't want to actually use the result.
>
> Dave
Thanks for your response, Dave.
Ok, maybe I underestimate the required effort ("alone" changing the
installer towards that direction would constitute a huge amount of
work).
And performance is of course yet another topic.
And yes: I'm lagging behind with my past projects. During summer I had
to restructure a few other things ...
It would be an interesting experiment.
Maybe one day I come to it and can offer and maintain such a thing as
community-supported alternative.
But I make no further binding promises, in order to avoid public
disappointment ...
I live in 2 countries and so on ...
I need to fix a few unanswered questions first ...
Regards,
Martin
