Vasiliy wrote: >> I'm not seeing how this is any different than the >> basic proposal outline >> that James presented to start this discussion. It > > Ok let me explain the difference: > > It different in terms of we are not introducing softwaer domanins as a new > concept of software management but allowing user do his local installation > without obligation from us to maintain it. All mainanance for user-installed > packages are his own problem, our commitment is to maintain system > consistency. And we just substituting current tar-balling practice with > something bit better, supporting users playing with software - which they > already doing. > > Software domain sounds much more complicated then just - user installing some > new software for evaluation. For software domain etc if we saying that we > support them we will have to provide good isolation levev which on my opinion > same as we have already for zones and was introduced in zones partially for > the reason to install and use different software isolated. > > So I think that scale of this are very different. As well as inplementation > effort. >
Vasya, it sounds like you feel that the term "software domain" is not appropriate for this proposal and should be reserved for projects which provide true process and file isolation (like Zones). I would be happy to change the terminology I use to describe the "software home" where users install their user-based software, if that would alleviate your concerns. >> doesn't answer any of >> my concerns about presenting a more comprehensive >> view of the system >> software, though. > > The point is that we separate two different things - user level nstallation > and software domain, and target first one with minor changes to existing > solutions and target another one using alredy existing solutions zones. > > So we are not presenting any more comprehensive view of the system software, > avoiding introduction of new comlexity dimentions. This is a major point of this proposal - that we avoid those dimensions you speak of. -jhf-
