On 21/06/2009, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > On Jun 21, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:32 AM, <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Sorry for missing this the first time but what is the justification for > > > moving any utilities into SUNWcsu? SUNWcsu needs to be broken up into > > > separate packages and not have additional content added into it. > > > > > > > Really? We already have far too many itty-bitty packages to manage a > system > > properly. The need is for fewer well-defined and well-bounded packages, > not > > continual fragmentation. > > > > > It is a matter of perspective. For those wanting to minimise the system > and tailor it to their needs, more packages is better.
If you want embedded systems then Roland's approach is better - it is designed like Linux's busybox and puts the fundamental POSIX commands in one library which is shared by all applications. That saves memory and disk space, is blinding fast, conforms to POSIX and is compatible to OSX and Linux but outruns BOTH Linux and OSX in terms of performance and compatibility. The best of all worlds - this is IMO how the future of Solaris should look like :) -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher at googlemail.com> Institute Pasteur
