> Thanks for sharing the info, Kyle. It is indeed a bit unusual > way to install and expand the system. If you could blog the detail and > share the link, I think that will be an interesting info for whom > want to do the same or similar. > I can post the package add/deletes from my JS profile after I reproduce it. > Usually what people do is select a meta-cluster a bit bigger than > the Core such as End User and higher and customize/remove unneeded > packages with and during Solaris installation where dependency > information would be provided in more detail. > Yes but removing things from the larger clusters is a pain. The dependcies usually scare you out of removing things since tracking down all the other packages to remove is such pain.
Have you ever tried remoinvg the WBEM packages from SUNWCdev? Ouch. I was hoping to get the smallest install I could, with the least baggage from other packages. So I started as small as possible, and added from there. As it is I found several dependencies trails that make no sense... Like why does GNOME accessibility depend on Solaris Zones? Or try installing XscreenSaver without GNOME - or with as little GNOME as possible, pretty soon you're installing Python, TCL, TK, Accesibilty, parts of Evolution, Encryption, GNOME printing, Solaris Printing packages, etc. It's much easier to manage the dependencies while adding packages than removing them. > SUNWuiu8 which contains iconv code conversion modules and binary > tables belong to SUNWCutf8 cluster and the cluster belongs to SUNWCuser > (i.e., End User) and higher meta-clusters and statically installed when > such meta-clusters are chosen during the Solaris installation. I'd be > also personally interested in knowing what are the packages have in your > system before you added SUNWuiu8 and get the en_US.UTF-8 going by the way. > You're right, I was mistaken when I said SUNWCutf8 wasn't referenced by any of the meta clusters. And I can see why SUNWCreq and SUNWCrnet don't include it. How ever when I was adding the GNOME packages, I would have expected the installer to prompt me to resolve the SUNWuiu8 depenency even if I started with SUNWCrnet. Just to clarify, Adding SUNWuiu8 didn't make en_US.UTF-8 work. I still don't have en_US installed. Adding SUNWuiu8 made the 'C' Locale work without en_US. I'll try to generate the list of packages tommorrow. This message posted from opensolaris.org
