Hi Alan,

On 15 Jan 2011, at 20:34, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> On 01/15/11 03:34 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
>> Unfortunately this is something we have inherited from Oracle. Some of the 
>> packages need to be split, so that they don't pull in such a large tree of 
>> dependencies. Some packages (Things like python) also have dependencies on 
>> things like the gnome libraries or X11 libraries - if the packages were 
>> split then this could improve the situation.
> 
> Some known issues in this area are:
> 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7010355
> - splitting tk bindings out of the core python package
> 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7010324
> - splitting X apps out of the core groff package
> 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6574610
> - splitting glib out of the gnome-base-libs package
> 
> Those are all from spec files in the jds spec-files repo, so it
> should be possible for someone from OI to work with the folks on
> [email protected] to make it happen for everyone.

Thank you very much indeed for that list, that definitely helps with knowing 
where to start. Sounds like an ideal candidate for some collaboration! :-)

Cheers,

Alasdair



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