[oi-dev] oi_148 is pending

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 09:02 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> > On 20 Nov 2010, at 05:49, Albert Lee wrote:
> >> - Create a text_install cluster for the Text Installer (its current
> >> use of an explicit package list is quite embarrassing).
> > 
> > I always wondered why they did it that way.
> 
> That's what the server_install cluster is that was introduced in b150:
> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12737
> http://hg.openindiana.org/pkg-gate/file/tip/src/util/distro-import/150/common/ServerInstall
> 
> (Be careful though, that's around the build that non-freely-redistributable
>  packages started getting included in the main Solaris Express repo & clusters
>  even the now-misnamed "redistributable", so you'll probably need to drop some
>  packages that are in the clusters but not in your repos.)
> 


That's *really* scary, IMO, as it represents the start of a path where
Oracle no longer cares about this separation.  At the end of the day,
this has the potential to poison downstream consumers.

This makes my call to "fork" these various consolidations even more
compelling, IMO.

	- Garrett