On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:05:52AM -0800, John Plocher wrote: > Darren Kenny wrote: > > The main benefit of having libraries in a public location is that people > > will > > use them - while these libraries are dependencies of some apps, they are > > also > > very useful for more rapid desktop development - making something > > Consolidation > > Private really defeats this purpose. > > +1
+1 > > I think we need to get away from the idea of Consolidations a bit, since > > OpenSolaris really breaks down these barriers and I think it would be pity > > to > > raise them again out there. > > +0 - IMO, we need to drastically shrink the sizes of our consolidations - and > raise the number of them. For example, each and every FOSS thing should be > its own consolidation - it delivers as a unit, it has its own versioning, etc. > IPS and repositories are tools that let us do that. How is the SFW consolidation not an aggregate of FOSS mini-consolidations?
