On Feb 6, 2008 4:44 AM, Joerg Schilling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > You need to install GNOME libs in order to run a X-less base OpenSolaris
> > > installation. Do you believe this is correct?
> >
> > No, but I suspect it's a result of packaging, not software.
>
> If this should read that you believe it is not correct, I concur...

Yes, I don't think one should need GNOME libs in order to run an
X-less base installation -- as long as DBUS and HAL are rightfully not
considered "GNOME libs"; since they are not in the relevant sense.

> There are general structural problems with the arbitrary "project boundaries"
> that should be fixed in future. If I did put parts of the cdrtools source into
> a separate package that you need to doenload from a different location, people
> would be angry with me....

Yes, I am trying to say that packaging is the issue here, not software.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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