James Dickens wrote:
On 6/19/06, Stephen Harpster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What you're proposing is the Companion CD. Check out the
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/companion/";>Companion
Project</a>.
You can add the stuff you want there where it will automatically show
up in Solaris
Express.
not really, the companion CD is much too policitical and too locked in
currently with "doing the right thing" that project has been around in
various stages for over a year and has produced no deliverables, i
hear that may change in the near future. but it is still not a
replacement for this project. And the companion CD project is not
doing enough to be open and accessible to the community as a whole.
This project is about including scripts and content that new users use
every day. One likely canidate for inclusion in this project is
blastwave's pkg-get and its use is directly conflicts with the
companion CD project, it may not be perfect but the people have
spoken, there are currently over 3 million package downloads a month
and growing.
I'm sure there are other things that this project will work to get
intrograted that conflict with the companion CD project as well or may
not be perfect enough to meet the companion CD projects requirements,
but still used by many people.
The companion CD certainly doesn't *NEED* to be political though. As
the saying (plea?) goes: "Can't we all just get along?"
Anyway, Mike (Sullivan) is right, parts of this can certainly go in
under the SFW project - which isn't (or shouldn't be) political.
The companion CD project is very near to being open and accessible...
right now they are waiting for us (the OpenSolaris team) to get the
infrastructure ready to support them, which is very very very near.
Don't interpret the delay as their choice to be a deliberate action.
cheers,
steve
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