'James Cheng wrote:' > Hi, > > As Mary and James said, the symlinks at /opt/SUNWmlib were installed > for backward compatibility, per ARC requirement. They were installed > from the following two packages: > > SUNWmlibk > SUNWmlibl > > I am not sure about external users' dependency on those symlinks. > For Sun internal users, AFAIK, only some of the GNOME packages have > a "soft" dependency on the SUNWmlib package which installs libraries > to /usr/lib/. I cc'd Brian Cameron from the GNOME/JDS team, in case > he has a comment/correction.
OK - thanx a lot to all responders helping me to get a clue :) Since I do not need GNOME stuff in a zone, I can live with a possible soft dependency. The motivation for SUNWmlibk,SUNWmlibl was not its size but to get /opt freed, so that it might be used as a zone internal rw [z]fs - some people still hardcode pathes into their binaries :(. BTW: Tightened my prototype zone from ~ 950 MB down to ~220 MB (most of it comes from /var/sadm/pkg patch archives) and now it gets installed within ~ 3 min (previously ~ 20min). See also http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=65501￤ http://www.linofee.org/~jel/develop/zones/pkg.excludes http://www.linofee.org/~jel/develop/zones/gz-only-packages (probably not be perfect yet ;-)) Thanx again, jel. PS: Why are your replies to jive threads not listed in http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa*? This way I guess, a lot of useful information gets lost, since "legacy" discussion list archives don't seem to exist :(
