On Tue, 9 May 2006, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 16:26, Martin Man wrote: > > > > splitting into -devel is good IMHO, because > > > > 1) users don't need gcc and header files and static libs > > 2) developers can always install them > > 3) it saves space, and yes, space is still important as it was before > > even if we have bigger drives and more memory -> think Java vs. flash, > > or Linux live distro on USB flash drive > > So don't install the gcc package. There aren't static libs (although > I think we still have some lint libraries that are quite big), and > headers are generally small compared to the app itself. > > Besides, I feel that if you want to customise at that level, asking > the package system to do the work for you is doing it wrong.
If not the packaging level, what about the software cluster level? It's pretty easy to specify SUNWCreq, or SUNWCrnet. It's pretty easy to specify that during the initial install, but not once the system is already up and running. No opinion either way.... just curious. -------------------- Christopher Josephes cpj1 at visi.com
