On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:19:10AM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > > What makes a package "top-level"? I don't get the definition. > > There's no formal definition. I would probably characterize it as one that > you'd expect the user to care specifically about adding or removing from > the system, as opposed to an adjunct package that, for the most part, you'd > expect users not to care about, and to just come on to the system as a > dependency of some other package.
By that definition, SUNWxvm and SUNWvirtinst should be the only required packages: the others are all plumbing. > > If an incorporation will do what I think it will, and that's sensible > > for a cluster, then I think it should do. That is, if I have the cluster > > installed, and virt-manager, then an update of the cluster should give > > me a newer virt-manager if there is one. If I don't have virt-manager, > > then it's OK. > > An optional dependency will have the same effect, but more correct > semantics (I believe), as the two different dependency types evolve. OK, that then. thanks john _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
