Danek Duvall wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:07:15AM +0800, Alex Peng wrote: > > >> On my Ferrari 4000, OpenSolaris 2008.05, Device Driver Utility >> recognizes that the video card is ATI Radeon X700, but "pkg >> image-update" doesn't utilize this info, it still downloaded/installed >> NVDAgraphics. Why? I just want to update the existing packages, no need >> to have a not-installed device's driver. >> > > image-update is currently very simple in how it determines what to install > -- it upgrades all the packages installed on the system. That may bring in > new packages if any existing package (such as redist_cluster or > slim_install) has a dependency on a new package. > > By default, all device driver packages are installed on your system, which > is why you have NVDAgraphics. And, due to the simplicity of image-update, > even if you were to explicitly remove that package, it would be reinstalled > because the higher-level clusters you most likely have installed would > bring it in again. That won't be fixed until we have an intent log to keep > track of what you actually want and don't want on your system. > Why "all device driver packages are installed by default"? Can it be solved by having a much more clear package dependency tree, a sub-project like this -- SMF Dependency Graph Generator http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/smf/scfdot/ ?
The others I don't like are: 1. During installation, I was asked to choose a language, so I think only that language package will be installed. But I am wrong, all I18N language packages are there, I will never read or use them, why are they installed? 2. In my working environment, I won't use iSCSI, IP over Infiniband, so I hope those packages should not be installed by default. In short, I want a clean installation which just matches my hardware and my preference. -Alex _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
