<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dennis Clarke</b> <<a href="mailto:dclarke@blastwave.org">dclarke@blastwave.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> I was wonder, does it make sense to install the minimal Solaris 10 OS<br>> packages and then install only the blastwave software packages. For<br>> instance, if I wanted the gnome enviroment. I would install Solaris without
<br>> gnome then install it with 'pkg-get install gnome' after setting up the<br>> blastwave pkg-gt.conf file. I ask because my gnome setup is acting up where<br>> the gnome-panels don't load. I assume its because I have Sol10 package
<br>> libraries and Blastwave packages where dependencies are in conflict. Any<br>> help is appreciated.<br>><br>> tflande<br><br>I sometimes do testing like this.<br><br>If one thinks about it, the stack of software from Blastwave has pretty much
<br>every software feature that you would get in stock Solaris 10 plus about<br>1000 other software packages. The libraries and dependencies are built to<br>resolve within the /opt/csw file tree and only link with SUN provided
<br>packages when absolutely needed. Our build of bash is actually up to date<br>where the version that comes with Solaris 10 update 4 is still lagging way<br>behind.<br><br>The GNOME suite is very large and a lot of work goes into testing it. i have
<br>personally poured endless nights and days into testing. It will work all on<br>its own stand-alone in Solaris 8 upwards.<br><br>That was always the plan.<br><br>In fact, one could easily build an OpenSolaris based distro with just core
<br>functions in it and then drag in the Blastwave software for userland stuff.<br><br>Dennis</blockquote><div><br><br>I use Blasewave's Gnome all the time. It rocks. Do you know if it is possible to install Solaris without JDS? Have two of everything eats up a lot of disk space.
<br><br>Chris<br></div><br></div><br>