On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Kannan <ck_kannan at yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks Mike. > Looks like feature based install will address some of our issues. I went > through your documentation it is interesting and capture all issues of > Solaris software management. Still don't know how high level is the feature > based. Let us say I do not want to install postgresql do I need to make one > selection or multiple selections. Most of my questions can be answered if I > try the Developer Preview release. So let me try and post more questions. >
This is not something that exists - it is my suggestion for a way to handle this type of situation. Keep in mind, as others have alluded, that saying "remove all the open source because it is for some reason bad" is probably a bad direction. If that is really an essential part of your software decisions, I'm afraid that you will be ill suited by pretty much any general purpose OS other than perhaps Windows. Parts of the minimum supported OS on Solaris are things that Sun has integrated from the open source community (e.g. Perl, sendmail, etc.). As time goes on, pretty much everything that will make up Solaris will be derived from open source - granted it will be largely the Solaris code that went from closed to open (and possibly back to closed). My suggestion for feature-based meta-packages has the potential to help those that are trying to maintain minimized installations. If you use the approach of "install everything" then you are likely to see little benefit from feature-based meta-packages. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
