Dave Miner wrote: > Frank Ludolph wrote: >> Thanks Dave. >> >> Responses in-line. Happy to accept specific suggestions if my >> responses still seem off-key. >> >> Dave Miner wrote: >>> Comments in-line: >>> >>>> * Distributions >> I was thinking of a place for various extrusions? > > So when we ship 2008.11, what will this have? slim_install, > babel_install, redistributable? How else might you categorize these?
I was thinking Distributions would include things that could be installed via IPS into a newly created BE, or that could be easily made media ready (e.g. iso) with the distro constructor. Does this make sense? > >> >>>> * System >>>> o Administration and Configuration >>>> o Boot and Initialization >>>> o Cluster >>>> o Core >>> >>> I don't see a useful distinction between "Boot and Initialization" >>> and "Core". >> Packages specific to getting the system started vs Kernel? > > The only thing that runs before the kernel is GRUB. A single-package > category (it would be empty on SPARC) seems not useful. So there are no other packages specific to initializing the OS? OK. So you would put GRUB in Core? > >>>> o ... >>>> o Libraries (System) >>>> o Localizations (System) >>>> o Media >>>> o Network >>>> o Packaging >>>> o Printing >>>> o Security >>>> o Services >>> >>> Can you elaborate on what the difference between "Network" and >>> "Services" might be? >> Network is just for network support, not the services that run over >> the net. > > OK, what do you mean by "network support"? The stack is in the core > packages right now, I'm skeptical we'd try to separate it. Drivers > are elsewhere. Most everything else is services, or it's client > applications like ftp or wget, which if that's what you mean, OK, I > guess, but then I'd call it network clients or something. > OK, scratch Network. Where would you categorize client apps? I was thinking they would fall under "Text Tools". Suggestion? Thanks for the comments. Frank _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
