It's not a workload issue. We can handle more packages (as long as our nightly build completes in 24 hours ;) But it doesn't seem logical. Currently there is no rule to determine where a package belongs. It's a matter of who integrated it initially. Ideally, desktop should be desktop, X should be X, ON should be OS and networking. There is also no reason why all the GNU tools should follow the GNOME schedule, which JDS currently does.
This is actually a big beef at my company. We're replacing Gentoo on our application nodes with OpenSolaris for a variety of reasons. We had a rude awakening when we did not install most of the Gnome packages, and were missing glibc 2.0 as a result...and a couple other critical packages. Interestingly, eject and the hal would not work without glibc 2.0. Its pretty ridiculous to expect folks to install the X/Gnome packages on a server. Particularly, from a security point-of-view. So we second the notion that GNU tools should NOT be packaged in with Gnome, but should be separate. Best Regards, Jason _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
