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 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
