On 01/08/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Danek Duvall wrote: > >> (Question: Does anybody know if the SUNCreq/SUNWCrnet > >> mini-metaclusters are derived fully from ON or not?) > > > > Definitely not. SUNWCmreq contains packages from NWS, SFW, DevPro, > > Install, NSN, JES > > common components, and RE, which is just about all the consolidations that > > deliver to the WOS > > other than the graphics and desktop-related ones. > > > > SUNWCreq and SUNWCrnet are both supersets of SUNWCmreq, at least in terms > > of consolidations > > that deliver packages to them. > > Dave M, Danek -- > > OK, thanks. I guess my somewhat lames excuse rests on the fact > that SUNWCmreq and SUNWCrnet are sub-core things (to my way of > thinking anyway), and ones that occupy very little space. So > I've always tended to think of them them (and my guess is others > do as well) as things that do not encompass a lot more than just > ON. > > Anyway, in light of this, my take now is that coming up with the 100% > open-source thing from which the distro constructor will build is > actually going to be rather tricky business, correct? If so, can I and > others interested in this concept help in any way at this point?
Tricky to nigh impossible I would say, especially given that means that you can't support SPARC at all since we currently don't have the source for the SPARC disassembler. I really don't think you can aim for 100% open-source. Instead, you're going to have to aim for 100% redistributable. I don't see much advantage in trying to require 100% open-source anyway, the best tool for the job... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
