On 02/23/11 09:30 AM, Albert Lee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:06 AM, MATTHEW WILBY > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good Morning, >> >> I've seen various people enquire about when we are going to release a SPARC >> iso. >> >> What I'd like to propose is that we work towards preparing a dev text >> installer, using Illumos and incorporating the the hard work done on g11n, >> and a recent build of SFW etc. I think most people are using SPARC based >> servers as opposed to workstations, so I suspect XNV/JDS can follow at a >> later date if there is interest. > > Additionally, SPARC graphics support is extremely limited so the > desktop target will primarily be Sun Ray and other remote sessions. It > is probably possible to omit all of XNV, but JDS provides core > software including Python.
Until you do some refactoring, you won't be able to get an OS that doesn't rely on at least some XNV libraries. For instance, the python core package (which is needed for IPS itself of course) includes the tk bindings, which require libX11: % pkg contents -t depend -o fmri runtime/python-26 FMRI [email protected] compress/[email protected] consolidation/gnome/gnome-incorporation database/[email protected] library/[email protected] library/[email protected] library/[email protected] library/security/[email protected] library/[email protected] runtime/[email protected] runtime/[email protected] system/library/[email protected] system/[email protected] % pkg contents -t depend -o fmri runtime/tk-8 FMRI [email protected] consolidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation runtime/[email protected] system/library/[email protected] system/[email protected] x11/library/[email protected] [Admittedly, those are from S11X, but I didn't think OI had changed the python packaging from upstream. BTW, if you are looking at python packaging, be aware it's being changed "upstream" on opensolaris.org: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/userland-discuss/2011-February/000178.html in the near future.] -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
