[OpenIndiana-discuss] Slim XVM Installation

[Oliver Roeschke]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 07:12 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> That looks like something had a dependency on the package that
> delivered
> libX11 & the other X libraries & core X clients in B134 (x11/clients)
> and
> hasn't been rebuilt with the X packages since that was split up into
> all
> the smaller packages in B144, so just inherits the dependency on all
> the
> new packages.

>From my (not so decent) understanding of osol/oi packing the packet that
is pulling X in, is
	desktop/remote-desktop/tigervnc

I think it was included as dependency os xvm, because HVM virtualization
offers one VNC port for each guest to connect to and use the guest.
which is totally understandable for machines where XVM is used as a
desktop virtualization replacement.

however XVM is more powerful, and is (IMHO) the best variant for general
virtualization. to support a minimal machine approach (in terms of
installed software), installation of tigervnc should be optional.

regards
mr. olli