* 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

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