[2296] in Release_7.7_team
Re: On putting infoagents on local disk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Jun 1 17:35:10 2000
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:35:03 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Another option we might want to consider (if only briefly) would be to
include the vendor's netscape distribution in the OS install. I know
this is plausible for IRIX (we now take extra steps to nuke the SGI
version), and Miki tells me that one of the Solaris CD's contains a
netscape package.
This approach would raise several issues, though, e.g.:
- We would likely have different versions of netscape on different
platforms.
- We'd lose flexibility in being able to update the version.
- We'd have to deal with netscape configuration/customization.
- The impact on space in /usr on Suns.
Without doing further investigation, my guess is that these issues would
be enough not to recommend doing this...
The approach you describe seems OK if it works and proves to be low
maintenance; we might want to think about generalizing it, if there
are other lockers we would want to bring local.
Bob
