Dave Miner <[email protected]> writes:
> A couple of notes about the referenced document[1].
>
> First, the JeOS project undertook it since it was an area of interest for
> their goals. Caiman and pkg have taken the position that we'd look at this
> once we'd done refactoring in the core packages, since there presently is a
> hairball around SUNWcs that makes true minimization somewhat ineffective.
True: you drag in a small world, parts of which are clearly non-required
(like Solaris Volume Manager).
> I'm hoping we'll get to that work soon.
Fine.
> Second, the goals of that document were not precisely for pure
> minimization. As noted in 2.1.1, it's meant to define a minimal
> *supported* installation, per the terms of Sun's (now Oracle's) support
> policies. Hence some of your comments later on, which rightly note that it
> reflects some business requirements rather than purely technical ones.
> Oracle's OpenSolaris-based products and other community efforts are likely
> to diverge here, so I think it'll be important to make clear the goals of
> any work we do so that there isn't a misunderstanding.
Indeed, though I'd expect the community to define a minimum `cannot run
without' profile, while Oracle adds to that to satisfy their support
requirements.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
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