Glynn Foster stated:
> 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
> - 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?
> - 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
Should X (Xorg, etc) be included here or is it being left in ?
(just to to have the 'graphical .. and utilities' section complete)
Regards,
Sean.
.
>
> 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 *
>
> AMP
> - Apache, Lighttpd, Squid, Memcached
> - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite
> - PHP, Rails
> - GlassFish
> - OpenDS
> - Lynx
> - Ant
>
> Deployment
> - Automated Install
> - Distro Constructor
>
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--
Sean.
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