David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: >> We've been working away at getting a prototype Slim Install CD built >> (fairly successfully ;-) and I've posted an updated package list off of >> the Slim announcements page [1]. I also posted diffs vs. Sanjay's >> original list, the summary of which is essentially adding the Dwarf >> Caiman installer, the man pages, fix a few typos and dependencies that >> were missing, and use Gnome packages built against the FOX packages. > >> [1] >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Slim_Install/slim_annoucememts/ >> > > Thanks for the revised list, Dave. > > Sanjay asked me about what other components from SFW might be useful on > the Live CD and I've come up with two lists. The first group has a > fairly small footprint on the CD (~9MB) and includes a number of useful > client utilities and GNU commands. The second group I'm not so sure > about given the space these packages would take and the fact that I > believe their functionality is handled via other components such as > Gimp and Evince. However, I'm open to including them if others believe > they're useful. > > All sizes are bzip2 compressed, your milage may vary. > > dsc > > Proposed additions > ================== > 2K SUNWa2psr a2ps - GNU Any to PostScript filter (root) > 569K SUNWa2psu a2ps - GNU Any to PostScript filter (user) > 865K SUNWbind BIND DNS Name server and tools[1] > 3K SUNWbindr BIND Name server Manifest[1] > 0K SUNWgcmn gcmn - Common GNU package > 59K SUNWggrp ggrep - GNU grep utilities > 41K SUNWgpch The GNU Patch utility > 93K SUNWgtar gtar - GNU tar > 60K SUNWless The GNU pager (less) > 16K SUNWlibusbugen SUN libusb ugen plugin > 145K SUNWlxml-python The XML library - Python bindings[2] > 26K SUNWlxsl-python The XSLT library - Python bindings[2] > 265K SUNWncft NcFTP - client application implementing FTP > 713K SUNWnmap nmap - Network Mapper > 60K SUNWpsutils psutils - PostScript utilities > 3K SUNWrpm Utilities for processing RPM archives > 153K SUNWrsync rsync > 0K SUNWsfdoc GNU and open source documentation > 2.6M SUNWsfinf GNU and open source info pages > 1.0M SUNWsfman GNU and open source man pages > 169K SUNWtcsh Tenex C-shell (tcsh) > 233K SUNWtexi GNU texinfo - Texinfo utilities (texinfo) > 0K SUNWwgetr GNU wget - utility to retrieve files from the World > 113K SUNWwgetu wget - GNU wget > 61K SUNWzip The Info-Zip (zip) compression utility > 857K SUNWzsh Z shell (zsh) >
What, gtar and not "star"? ;^) No objection, I think we'll just take these, though I wonder whether the live CD layout will actually agree with SUNWrpm to the point that it'll do anything useful. > Other potential additions > ========================= > 73K SUNWGlib GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming > 0K SUNWGtkr GTK - The GIMP Toolkit (Root) > 545K SUNWGtku GTK - The GIMP Toolkit (Usr) > 3.5M SUNWimagick ImageMagick - Image Manipulation Utilities and > > 4.3M SUNWgscr espgs - ESP GhostScript > 721K SUNWgsfot GNU Ghostscript Fonts (Other) > 1.7M SUNWgsfst GNU Ghostscript Fonts (Standard) > I'll put them on the list for consideration. SUNWimagick is already there from Glynn's list. Dave
