Dave Miner wrote: > Martin Man wrote: >> Stephen Potter 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 >> > > As Darren pointed out, we don't bother with static libraries anymore. > The space required by header files and other developer-specific items in > the current Solaris WOS appears to be essentially in the noise, though I > haven't studied it in great depth.
Well, even if at the moment devel stuff is just noise, it will probably not be noise in the future... Just look at all linux distros, there is no reason to believe that solaris will go different path... > The problem, at this point, with increasing the granularity of packages > is that we don't have automation for determining and maintaining package > dependencies, and we know we're not good at maintaining this sort of > thing manually. We're working at some solutions, but until we actually > have a solution in place, we'd prefer to avoid making the problem worse. I agree, I have read your installation strategy proposal and I'm looking forward to what will come out. > Dave thanx, Martin
