Danek Duvall wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:32:39PM +0800, Alex Peng wrote: > >> Why "all device driver packages are installed by default"? > > Because people can get kind of snippy when they add new hardware and it > doesn't work immediately. Solaris may have that problem regardless, but -- > particularly for a live CD or an initial installation -- it's a good > initial guess and doesn't take a up a whole lot of space. > > If you want something more tailored to your system, go bug the caiman > people. > >> Can it be solved by having a much more clear package dependency tree, > > No, it has nothing to do with dependencies. > >> 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. > > Those are both installer issues, and not someting to do with the packaging > system. install-discuss would be the place to start. >
The way the current installer works is to (essentially) copy the contents of the LiveCD onto the destination driver. The LiveCD obviously needs to have all available drivers so it boots on the widest possible range of hardware; thus you get all drivers. The same is true for the languages, etc. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
