Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I'm wondering, what thought has anyone seriously given to the notion of > "shrinking" ON? > > It seems like anytime anyone has anything to putback that doesn't fall > into SFW, JDS, or X11, they stick it into ON. .... > My point is, maybe we should consider a separate consolidation, > "utility" or somesuch, for portions of ON that are not actually required > to build or boot ON. I'd hazard a guess that this would help out most > folks who work in ON a great deal -- regardless of whether their project > was in ON or the new consolidation. (I mean come on, do the folks > working on "vi" really need or a want a copy of the entire kernel and > all the drivers? Or even a copy of libc?)
I reckon it would be a yes to libc, no to pretty much everything else. > I wouldn't be surprised to learn that X11 or JDS or SFW have similar > concerns. Unbounded growth of consolidations is probably painful > everywhere. Granted, someday hopefully we'll get better tools (hg), but > even then, you have to populate an initial tree to start working, so a > smaller consolidation is still beneficial. Do you envision this "smallerising" process creating additional gates? Who would manage them? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
