Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> I'm not sure how far down that path we're going to go yet. The >> minimizers are an especially vocal and militant religious group that >> we're unlikely to be able to ignore. I agree that the existing >> clusters are problematic from a usability point of view, since they're >> not designed from that perspective but more often based on some >> particular componentry that our engineers have imagined to be useful. > One other thing to keep in mind is that software selection may not be > what we know it to be today. We are talking about adjusting the clusters > of software to be more intuitive in terms of what they mean, not just > some arbitrary clustering like we currently have. Another thing we are > talking about is allowing the ability to select and deselect clusters of > software, not individual packages. Although, I imagine if we went this > route we would get a lot of pushback.
There's no point in making the packages any smaller than our minimization boundaries, is there? Since we patch down to the file level, the only factor (aside from root vs user, sigh) governing package boundaries is minimization granularity. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
