On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:40 -0500, Kyle McDonald wrote: > >> For some reason the new 'rmvolmgr' has several dependencies, some of > >> which imply that it may require not just X11, but GNOME. This seems > >> to me to be a big step backwards. Ideally at least the old > >> functionality would be available without a windowed desktop, > >> Hopefully CD's will still automatically mount. > >> > >> What's the rational behind this change? Is there somewhere i can go > >> to read about the design, and find out if a window system is really > >> going to be required? > > > > Window system is not required. Media will still automatically mount. > > The new framework depends on D-Bus and GLib, which reside in SUNWdbus* > > and SUNWgnome-base-libs* packages - neither is a GUI component > > technically, although resides in the Desktop consolidation. > > > Reading up on Dbus I aggree that it's not windows system related. Why > then is it in SUNWCjdslibrun?
SUNWCjdslibrun contains parts of the JDS consolidation that are not desktop related but generic. It's quite a small cluster. > I'd only expect to find 'Desktop' thing in there, and I wouldn't install > that cluster on a server. On the contrary, you will only find non-desktop things there (: > Just to clarify, will it mount media with SUNWdbus missing (i.e. It's a > soft dependency?) or SUNWdbus is absoultely required (hard dependency) > but the rest of the window system is not? It's a hard dependency. > Same question for SUNWgnome-base-libs? I hope the answer is that it's > only required to enable 'extra' functionality, and that it will work > without it. I don't want to have to install the GNOME libraries (or the > things they require) just to make this work on a server. Again, it's required. dbus links to glib, which is not strictly a desktop library, but it's produced by the GNOME folks and it's the lowest level utility library in the GNOME stack. SUNWgnome-base-libs is also in a tiny cluster, which only includes SUNWgnome-base-libs and its java bindings. You don't need to install the rest of the GNOME stack. Laca > This seems reasonable as the old volume manager worked fine like this. > > -Kyle > > You can learn more about the project on the project page: > > > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/ > > > > Note: If you upgrade or liveupgrade to 52 or 53, you'll need to run > > 'svcadm enable hal rmvolmgr' once - the bug has been fixed in 54, so > > if you upgrade to 54, these services are automatically enabled on > > upgrade. > > > > -Artem. > > _______________________________________________ > > install-discuss mailing list > > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
