>>>>> "jek3" == Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> writes:
jek3> My "back of the cocktail napkin" proposal is that this OpenSolaris jek3> team divide the packages/objects into two categories: jek3> 1) If delivered, must be delivered by the distro (core). jek3> 2) Everything else. Yes, I'd like to have a common core, and some collection of blobs that distros can choose to take or ignore. What I don't understand is how much the existing consolidation structure will need to change. I think distros will have an easier time if they don't try to do surgery on a consolidation--either take it or don't, but don't modify it. But I'm not sure that's a realistic goal. jek3> OpenSolaris should strive to provide a repository of packages for jek3> everything in category 2) which does not overwrite the distro jek3> provided objects. [...] jek3> It is a choice of each distro as to when to refresh their jek3> delivered version from these references - another area where jek3> distros may desire to differentiate themselves. Mark Shuttleworth and some of the Ubuntu developers visited Sun last Friday and talked about their setup. What you're describing sounds like how they manage things. mike
