> This is what I agree with completely. I don't like or want the > silliness that the Linux world tries to have of integrating every > single package in existence. It's too much of a support burden and it > often holds packages back. That's why I've always liked the "Universe" > approach that Ubuntu, etc. use, or the community repositories Fedora > has available. > > Easily, available, installable, etc. is far preferable to me than > integrated into Solaris. Once you do integration, there are > expectations created that just aren't reasonable.
I would say that exists now. (Check out Blastwave). > That and your base os ends up horribly bloated. Actually it depends on home you define base OS. For that matter it also depends on how you define bloated. B62 Express with everything weighs in at approximately 4GB!! You have to remember that certain of these packages will be on the media, and the rest will only be available from the repository
