On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:25 -0600, Keith Bierman wrote: > On Aug 6, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Mark Phalan wrote: > > > > > These two will probably converge over time as indiana and Solaris > > become > > one (thats the current plan - right?) but it seems to me that THE most > > important thing here is consistency. I'm pretty sure that's what > > ubuntu > > do - the live cd is the same as the install, it just has fewer > > packages. > > The *same* packages should be delivered on the live cd as are > > delivered > > by the install, we just need to choose that subset. > > > > sure, there is some core which should be the same. In terms of > "packages" (some meta sense, not the solaris sense) there should be > "indiana" metapackage(s) and "solaris classic" metapackages. > > To use the Ubuntu analogy, there's the > > "universe" community defined > "supported" cannonical commerical support (main) > "restricted" - multiverse > special device software - restricted > > Sorry for repeating restricted in the one word description and the > name of a different category .. but that's the way it is. > > Clearly the factoring job is more complex where we want to have the > traditional Solaris support (which in turn has /usr/ucb and other > complexity) as well as /usr/gnu.
Perhaps I haven't been reading indiana mail enough but has it been decided that Indiana should break compatability with traditional Solaris? Or is it the matter of not being able to deliver some solaris pieces (as they are closed/not distributable) forcing us in that direction. It seems to me the ideal for Indiana would be to maintain backwards compatability (including command line interfaces) while at the same time enhancing those commands, delivering new more friendly defaults and adding all the "new-cool" bits and bobs (installer, new package system, zfs everywhere etc). -Mark (who probably needs to go and read more of the indiana-discuss archives) _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
