On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 23:05 -0700, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > > Ideally, desktop should be desktop, X should be X, ON should be OS > > and networking. > > There is also no reason why all the GNU tools should follow the > > GNOME schedule, which JDS currently does. > > > > This is actually a big beef at my company. We're replacing Gentoo on > our application nodes with OpenSolaris for a variety of reasons. We > had a rude awakening when we did not install most of the Gnome > packages, and were missing glibc 2.0 as a result...and a couple other > critical packages. Interestingly, eject and the hal would not work > without glibc 2.0. Its pretty ridiculous to expect folks to install > the X/Gnome packages on a server. Particularly, from a security > point-of-view.
A bit OT, but it's glib 2.0, and it really is part of the GNOME project. The reason why you need it for HAL is because HAL uses dbus (both of them are freedesktop.org projects) and dbus uses glib. Laca _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
