[I'm not a regular subscriber to this list, but Sue pointed me at this, so I am posting through the forum interface, so I apologize in advance for any strangeness caused thereby. If you want to include me in further discussion, please cc alan.coopersmith at sun.com. For those who don't know me, I work on the Solaris X consolidation and have handled most of the X packaging changes in Solaris for the last 7 years.]
> Why does SUNWCxwrte not include SUNWxwpl, even > though it does include SUNWxwplr and SUNWxwplt? Because when I created SUNWCxwrte there was no SUNWxwpl, and when the SPARC Graphics Driver team created SUNWxwpl later, they didn't ask to have it added to SUNWCxwrte. Looks like mostly just a communications breakdown between the two consolidations. File a bug on opensolaris.org to ask for it to be fixed. (SUNWCxwrte was created in s9 build 43, SUNWxwpl was added in s10 build 20.) > 5. I'm sure this isn't simple, but why does > installing SUNWj5rt (which is required now by so many > things.) force me to install parts of X11, CDE, > ToolTalk, Motif? Even on a headless server? Shouldn't > I only need these other packages if I need to use > Java graphically? Because Java doesn't package it's graphical toolkit classes separately from the rest of the JVM to allow splitting out those dependencies. In Nevada we've at least split SUNWxwplt so Java only pulls in the X libraries, and doesn't require the X server packages. (For details on that split, see: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6424854 ). -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering This message posted from opensolaris.org
