Frank Ludolph wrote: > 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? >
Just wanting to clarify that's what you meant for it to be. > 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? Yes, it makes sense, though right now just installing those clusters into a BE doesn't get you a running version of a distro so we need to be careful how we describe it. We also need to do some work on the descriptive text for those packages. >>>>> * 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? None that I can think of, so yes, I'd put it 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? > To me, Text Tools are things like nroff, nawk, etc.; real text processing tools. I'd call network client apps "Network Commands" perhaps. Dave _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
