>> How ever when I was adding the GNOME packages, I would have expected >> the installer to prompt me to resolve the SUNWuiu8 depenency even if I >> started with SUNWCrnet.
It looks like a bug so could you clarify your problem? When you added SUNWuiu8 only with SUNWCrnet, did your GNOME work fine on C locale? fujiwara Ienup Sung wrote: > Kyle J. McDonald wrote at 11/28/06 14:09: > >>> Thanks for sharing the info, Kyle. It is indeed a bit unusual >>> way to install and expand the system. If you could blog the detail and >>> share the link, I think that will be an interesting info for whom >>> want to do the same or similar. >>> >> >> I can post the package add/deletes from my JS profile after I >> reproduce it. > > > That'll be wonderful information. There was some related activities called > "minimization" but I'm not quite sure whether there was any conclusion on > that. I cc'd opensolaris-discuss mailing list for possible comment from > other folks on that. > > >> >> >>> Usually what people do is select a meta-cluster a bit bigger than >>> the Core such as End User and higher and customize/remove unneeded >>> packages with and during Solaris installation where dependency >>> information would be provided in more detail. >>> >> >> Yes but removing things from the larger clusters is a pain. The >> dependcies usually scare you out of removing things since tracking >> down all the other packages to remove is such pain. >> Have you ever tried remoinvg the WBEM packages from SUNWCdev? Ouch. >> >> I was hoping to get the smallest install I could, with the least >> baggage from other packages. So I started as small as possible, and >> added from there. >> >> As it is I found several dependencies trails that make no sense... >> Like why does GNOME accessibility depend on Solaris Zones? >> >> Or try installing XscreenSaver without GNOME - or with as little GNOME >> as possible, pretty soon you're installing Python, TCL, TK, >> Accesibilty, parts of Evolution, Encryption, GNOME printing, Solaris >> Printing packages, etc. >> >> It's much easier to manage the dependencies while adding packages than >> removing them. > > > I think either way probably has pros and cons. As I usually install entire > distribution with all locales installed, I cannot say how difficult it is > to customize your installation although I have done my shares of > customizations in the past. Due to I have some idea on Solaris clustering > and dependencies, it was quite and rather convenient to use Solaris > installation program to customize but I may (and probably) not representing > majority of the users. > > >> >> >>> SUNWuiu8 which contains iconv code conversion modules and binary >>> tables belong to SUNWCutf8 cluster and the cluster belongs to SUNWCuser >>> (i.e., End User) and higher meta-clusters and statically installed when >>> such meta-clusters are chosen during the Solaris installation. I'd be >>> also personally interested in knowing what are the packages have in your >>> system before you added SUNWuiu8 and get the en_US.UTF-8 going by the >>> way. >>> >> >> You're right, I was mistaken when I said SUNWCutf8 wasn't referenced >> by any of the meta clusters. And I can see why SUNWCreq and SUNWCrnet >> don't include it. >> >> How ever when I was adding the GNOME packages, I would have expected >> the installer to prompt me to resolve the SUNWuiu8 depenency even if I >> started with SUNWCrnet. >> >> Just to clarify, Adding SUNWuiu8 didn't make en_US.UTF-8 work. I still >> don't have en_US installed. Adding SUNWuiu8 made the 'C' Locale work >> without en_US. >> >> I'll try to generate the list of packages tommorrow. > > > I'd be still interested to know what GNOME package(s) are > using or having the dependency to the SUNWuiu8 for C locale since > this could be a packaging bug on lacking dependency definition at > GNOME package(s) albeit minor (as SUNWCutf8 being belong to all meta- > clusters that are capable of supporting GUI desktop environment). I'm also > cc'ng desktop-discuss mailing list. > > >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> i18n-discuss mailing list >> i18n-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/i18n-discuss > > > For the past messages from Kyle, BTW, please see the following threads: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18807&tstart=0 > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18722&tstart=0 > > Ienup > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
