* Dave Miner (dminer at opensolaris.org) wrote: > > Personally, I don't get the enthusiasm that's been expressed for > supporting this particular installation mode. I tend to believe that > it's due to habit of long-time Solaris users who haven't had network > package repo's; it was less inconvenient to have a pile of extra, mostly > useless bits lying around and adding overhead to upgrades than to have > to hunt up a DVD in the event that some of those bits were needed later > on. I'd never want to do this with any Linux distro, either (and > didn't, when I was using them a lot).
That echoes my sentiments precisely (even the part about not doing this on any Linux distro) for whatever it's worth. Cheers, -- Glenn
