John Sonnenschein wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Glynn Foster >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Over the last couple of days or so, I've started >>> >> to think about the media kits a >> >>> little more, particularly with respect to >>> >> http://get.opensolaris.org for the >> >>> OpenSolaris release, but also in terms of being >>> >> able to create derivations >> >>> targeting specific sets of our potential user >>> >> base. >> >>> As I see it, I think it should be possible to >>> >> create a generic framework that >> >>> would allow us to swap in and out components, >>> >> depending on that focus - with the >> >>> addition of more CD's depending on the focus. >>> >> Going one step farther: >> >> I'm assuming this means that people could go to the >> media kit website, >> pick out the modules they want (within a given size >> limitation) and >> then order that particular combo? >> > > Hey Shawn, Dunno if this particular idea is workable ( It might be... anyone > know? ) but I do agree that having a handful of media kits is a great idea... > eg, one DVD that's got the whole kit & caboodle ( KDE, GNOME, Flux, ruby, > python, xAMP stack, etc ), and then a bunch of CD's that you can order ( > order one KOpenSolaris, or ROpenSolaris ( ruby, you see... ), or > GOpenSolaris, or whatever ) > > > >>> As such you could think about a number of >>> >> standalone 'modules' - >> These are all great. >> >> >>> Anyway, just throwing this out to see if there's >>> >> any ideas people have that >> >>> haven't been captured. I'm sure there's *heaps* of >>> >> other possibilities, >> >>> particularly around making it really easy for >>> >> people to contribute to the >> >>> project. Let me know what you think!? >>> >> I would like to see the entire desktop be a module. >> That is, all of >> the GNOME-specific desktop stuff as one big module. >> That way folks >> could easily add on their own desktop of choice (i.e. >> XFCE, KDE, >> however). >> >> Alternatively, one big "GUI" module, so folks could >> get a strictly >> "console-based" experience for servers, etc. :) >> > > Oh, or for server stuff those mini-CD's ? like, one miniCD for a ruby server, > one minicd for an xAMP server, one minicd for ... etc > This could also be a fantastic example for people that want to create their own mini bundles (I can already think of about 5 I might want to do), of what needs to be in a mini platform. One question that comes to my mind while reading this is, does IPS hav e virtual packages ? I.e. in rpm/yum I have meta packages like KDE/GNOME etc that just are packages of dependencies.
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