[OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

[Alasdair Lumsden]

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
> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org 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