On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Frank Batschulat<Frank.Batschulat at sun.com> wrote: >> Pidgin, delivered by SUNWgnome-im-client, has a >> plugin that depends on one >> of the libraries delivered by >> SUNWevolution-data-server. ?So saying that >> nothing's harmed by removing the latter isn't >> actually true. ?It may just >> be the case that nothing you care about is harmed. >> ?Given that the other >> ackages are also large packages with lots of plugins, >> I'm assuming that >> the dependency is in those for similar reasons. >> > > Yepp, I see your point and agree. However that does not negate the observation > that we somehow have to come up with a long term solution to the > "forcibly remove packages" problem, whatever that might look like eventually. > > Above reasoning is of course correct, and this is all nice and nifty when > you assume that OSOL primarily targets the Desktop market, which it looks > like to be in my eyes and current SUN/Solaris customers I talk to. > > But, running it as is in a server/data center environment is something > I can hardly see right now "out-of-the box", eventually it boils down > to the basic question: "Does Gnome run the box or does the Operating System > run the box and enables Gnome usage ?" I'd guess the latter should be the > correct answer. > In which case I'd either need some sort of "enterprise edition" I can install > or I do need a way to strip down the current OSOL installation afterwards to > a reasonable server content. > > Since the "enterprise edition" is not available, a short term solution would > be indeed to enable the Admin again to take "ownership" of the system, maybe > via a forcibly override/remove. > > I know this is controversial, but something we probably shouldn't be ignoring > in the long term, e.g what do you offer a large ISP that currently uses > Solaris 10 > on hundreds of systems, striped down to even have X11 removed, systems > administered remotely via just asci consoles, > everything that runs and does not serve the primary purpose of the server does > cost them CPU time, disk and memory usage, power consumption and is thus just > not > used and removed. This is a real world case, this is not about desktops or > laptops, honestly.
The current available and supported option is to use the Distro-Constructor and create your own stripped down enterprise build. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
