Danek Duvall wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:24:52PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > >>>>> SUNWter Terminal Information >>> This provides the terminfo database. We wouldn't want to leave >>> this out right ? >> We haven't established a reason to need it yet. Not adding. > > The terminfo files for any terminals you're shipping should be on the CD. > And if people expect to ssh or telnet in, they may find it a pain to copy > over a terminfo file from somewhere else and set up their own database > somewhere writable and point TERMINFO at it. And others might be very > confused when vi goes into open mode when it can't find a terminal > definition. > > That said, SUNWter is missing a handful of important / interesting terminal > descriptions, so it could be that the majority of users wouldn't find their > terminal (putty, windows shell, xterm-256color, ...) in there anyway. > > It's small, so it seems to me to be a no-brainer to include it, but every > little bit adds up. >
The point of view I was taking is that since SUNWcsu has the sun-*, vt100, and xterm entries, it seems like that would cover 90+% of the likely universe. And since gnome-terminal identifies itself as an xterm, the desktop that you boot into will function properly. That seemed sufficient for my taste. >>>>> SUNWbart Basic Audit Reporting Tool >>> Built-in functionality similar to tripwire. Will be missed by >>> security conscious folks if left out. >> I'll add. > > I must be overlooking the obvious use-case, but how is this useful on > read-only media? > To expand on what Sanjay wrote subsequently, my take is that this isn't useful on the CD, but by having it installed from the media, you've got the ability to initialize auditing before ever connecting the installed system to a network. If you're paranoid, that seems like a good thing. Dave
