Stefan Teleman wrote: > In my mind (and this is just my thinking, please take it for what it's > worth), i would think that these collections of bits (SAMP, GNU, etc), > would belong to a different category of "things". These are mostly > userland "things", they change very quickly and often in incompatible > ways. It would probably be better and more manageable. for customers > if these were packaged and delivered *independently* of Solaris. At > least this way customers have a way of testing before they commit to a > version upgrade. We could call such a delivery mechanism "The Companion CD". 8^)
Only partly a joke. It was created because we knew we couldn't support its contents under a Solaris support/stability model, but we are being pushed to migrate such things into the base CD, because loading the second CD is just too hard. - sigh, - jek3
