On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Sanjay Nadkarni<Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com>
wrote:
> On 08/31/09 11:58 AM, Peter Tribble wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Glynn Foster<Glynn.Foster at sun.com> 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.
>
>
> > That's "on the media and available for selection" as opposed to "installed
> > by default", right?
> >
> > (Because the answer to the first is likely to be "whatever will fit"
> > and the latter is "SUNWCrnet".)
>
> The current approach for the text installer is somewhere in between.? We
> don't plan on users being able to select during install, and the set of pkgs
> provided by default will server oriented.? One could remove pkgs after
> installation either before reboot or after by using pkg uninstall.
Selection during install is *the* critical element here. You can't pick a
"standard" set of software, because it will be unsuitable for essentially
every customer. The correct approach here is to start with SUNWCrnet
and ask the user what else they want ("everything" may be a valid answer
to that question).
--
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
