> This PDF shows that Sun recommends you use the > "everything" software > group for production servers. Is that the norm? > Does Sun really think > hat a production server OS and tools should be 6 GB, > come with Star > Office, all the developer tools and libraries, etc?
No, but that's the easiest way to avoid a troublesome situation: install, patch, later decide you want to add some more packages; at that point, the newly installed packages won't be properly patches, and at the very least, you'd have to reinstall any patches that affected them, which would get tricky if any of the patches obsoleted any other patches. For a single install, you may need to figure out just which packages you'll never want and do a custom install (unless you can select a cluster and then leave certain packages out, which I suspect may not be possible). For multiple similar systems, you'd use Jumpstart or flash archives (images), in which case you'd only be doing the work once anyway. This message posted from opensolaris.org
