Hi Glynn,

Thanks for getting this out. Some comments below.

- Keith

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Sue asked me to post some thoughts around a potential package list to 
> the list, and start a discussion about what we could have on the 
> interactive text install media.
>
> Assumptions/Caveats:
>   - SPARC/x86 have as close to the same package list. It didn't seem 
> useful to individually
>     list out packages as a proposal.
>   - The primary focus for the text based interactive install is server 
> oriented, and while
>     GUI apps can be installed afterwards, this certainly fills the gap 
> of not having a SPARC
>     based media install (given we don't have SPARC LiveCD)
>   - Resulting media needs to be re-distributable
>   - Have not done the analysis of space limitations (CD or DVD) to see
>     what will fit
I don't think we need to limit to CD size for this. But I don't think we 
want to fill a DVD to the brim, either.
>   - Items marked with * are those that I'm unsure of. They'd almost 
> certainly the
>     first to go if there were space issues
>   - This is just a strawman for discussion. There will be very obvious 
> omissions that I
>     didn't think about.
>
> thanks,
>
> Glynn
>
> ==
>
> Core
>   - Enough to get to basic console prompt
>     - ksh93, bash, zsh, tcsh, csh, ...
>     - awk, sed, gawk, gtar, less, more, rsync, screen, ssh(d), wget...
>     - dialog
>     - /usr/gnu/bin default
>   - Drivers
>     - All included unless reason not to (IB, iSCSI, FC, ...)
>     - Non graphical device driver utility?
A non-graphical device driver tool is in the works and will definitely 
be included on the media (and by extension, on the installed system).
>   - Enough to get basics working out of the box
>     - ZFS, CIFS, COMSTAR
>     - IPS, BE
>     - Zones, Xen, LDOMs
>     - DTrace Toolkit
>     - Crossbow, IPMP, NWAM (off by default), DHCP server, DNS, NFS
>     - Volume Management, Suspend and resume (incl powertop, latencytop)
>     - Trusted
>     - CUPS
>   - Remove graphical desktop environment and utilities
>     - GNOME, OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird
>
> Documentation
>   - Man pages
>
> Language Runtimes
>   - Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Fortran, C, C++, Erlang
>
> Locales
>   - Support same locales as with LiveCD
>
> Developer
>   - MDB
>   - GCC, GDB
>   - Non-graphical parts of SunStudio
>   - JDK *
>   - autoconf *, automake *, libtool *, m4 *, make, gettext *, (g)patch *
>   - emacs, vi(m), nano *
>   - ON *, Mercurial *
I'm in favor of including mercurial on there. Perhaps others Subversion 
and/or other common version control tools as well?
>
> AMP
>   - Apache, Lighttpd, Squid, Memcached
>   - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite
>   - PHP, Rails
>   - GlassFish
>   - OpenDS
>   - Lynx
>   - Ant
>
> Deployment
>   - Automated Install
>   - Distro Constructor
AI and DC definitely belong! Polishing this image off and streamlining 
it for running as an AI server, distro builder, and IPS repo/mirror seem 
like worthy goals as well, though I'm not exactly sure what that would 
entail.
>
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