[OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

[Till Wegmueller]

Nope

On 07.01.21 18:05, Guenther Alka wrote:
> Please ignore my lack of knowledge if I am not correct or simplify too 
> much.
> 
> As far as I know kayak is a tool to setup OmniOS. I do not use. I 
> download either the OI or OmniOS installer, create a bootable dvd or USB 
> stick from it and install the OS. When I use the OI text installer the 
> result is quite identical to a OmniOS default setup.

The installer is kayak on OmniOS. On OpenIndiana it is slim_cd whcih is 
the OpenSolaris one.

> 
> would this work and gives you the current OI user experience on top of a 
> stable OmniOS base?
>

Nope. That would give you a package dependency hell. No package would be 
installable, as they are all built against different dependency version.

What you want is to make a OmniOS extra respoitory (git) with GUi 
packages. That would factually mean abandoning OI and the Goal of a 
General Purpose OS. That would be an acquisition not a merger.

-Till