Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:09 -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: >>>> I'd encourage that project to think carefully about how it can minimize >>>> its dependencies. >>> Well, we could ship our own copy of the *.xsl stylesheets but that's >>> more or less the limit of what we can do in this case... ;-( >> I would suggest breaking up SUNWgnome-xml into its smaller components, >> so that SUNWman or its replacement could depend only on the >> xsl-stylesheets tree. >> >> We could go further and break or mark the man-specific portions from >> that xsl-stylesheet tree, so that only the minimum made it to the CD, >> but 50% comes from just cutting the package into two... > > Actually, SUNWgnome-xml is made up of 3 major components, each of > those containing several smaller pieces (e.g. the docbook-dtds > component consists of 10 docbook tarballs, different versions of > docbook). I'm not suggesting we break it into 30 packages, but > it would be relatively easy to break it into 3 or 4. > > One issue is registering/unregistering the stylesheets in the > xml catalog. We use postinstall/preremove scripts for that in > Nevada and they may prove to be difficult to convert to smf > services, especially the preremove part: once the package is > removed, it's difficult to know what exactly needs to be > unregistered. > > Dave, can you file an RFE for refactoring SUNWgnome-xml pls. >
Done, bug 2897. Note that I've placed the string cd-space in the bug's Whiteboard field. I'd request that any bugs which are targeted at reducing CD space consumption please use this string to help in tracking. Thanks! Dave
